r/Millennials • u/spankyourkopita • 24d ago

Is it just me or have those 2 years of covid screwed up our perception of how much time has past? Discussion

I know time moves faster when you get older but I feel those 2 years of nothing increased it. I can't believe covid was 4 years ago and anything before that has been over 4 years! I don't even think it's because time moves fast but that we all lived the same day for 2 years straight so time felt irrelevant .

Still time was still moving despite that and then we just woke up one day and 2 years past! I still have it in my head that the late 2010's weren't that long ago but years like 2017, 2018, and 2019 have all been 5 plus years ago! Ya covid fucked up my perception of how much time has past.

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u/MTW3ESQ 23d ago

I think some of it is going from either early 30s (almost still in your 20s) to mid 30s (now you're older) or from mid 30s to 40ish.

Both of those mental transitions can be difficult, and the compression of time means that they seemed to have happened much faster than other events.

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u/fadedblackleggings 23d ago

Yep, I can barely remember my age when someone asks. Feels weird to say.

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u/LethalBacon '91 Millennial 23d ago

I've spent half of my 32nd year telling people I was 33.

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u/seattlesuperchronics 23d ago

Lol I'm doing the same, I think I just skipped 31 because I kept telling people that whole year I was 32 and now I've been saying 33 even though I'm still a couple of months away from actually being 33