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How quick has the last ten years gone for you?

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Mummy2022FT · 10/08/2023 19:56

10 years ago was 2013. I can't believe that. It just doesn't feel like that long ago.

I've always heard time goes quicker the older you get, I'm only now just starting to feel the effects... and it's starting to freak me out.

Has your life changed much in the last 10 years?

Is time going fast for you too?

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JamSandle · 10/08/2023 20:00

It feels like last week to me! I often find myself saying 'last year when...' only to realise it was over a decade ago 🙈I also think time flies when youre having fun!

PerspiringElizabeth · 10/08/2023 20:04

A LOT has happened for us in the past 10 years - that crazy phase of life - 3 moves, 3 kids, working hard, ill health, cool experiences. When I think back to DS being a baby, it is very clear to me and I can see any photo and say where it was and who we were with. I remember it all so well. So in that way it doesn’t seem like that long. DS’ life all over again and he’ll be a grown up. That is scary fast.

Bu also so much has happened that feels like ages and ages ago!

UndercoverCop · 10/08/2023 20:06

I'm some ways of feels like I was a decade younger six months ago, but so much has changed in my life in the last ten years it's like looking back to another world

BitOutOfPractice · 10/08/2023 20:09

I was just thinking that this morning.

my life has changed irrevocably in 10 years. Met and moved in with DP. Kids gone through the teen years and left home. Moved from suburbia to a city centre. Downsized massively. Business is completely different to the one it was 10 years ago.

I have never been more content.

the lady 10 years has been kind to me but jeez it’s whizzed by!

Kworms · 10/08/2023 20:09

The last 10 years have flown by, I've had two more kids and gone from being energetic to never having any energy!
I agree that time speeds up as you get older and the busier you are the quicker time passes!

LlynTegid · 10/08/2023 20:13

I agree that time does seem to move at an uneven rate. Though ten years ago (between 2023 and 2013) does seem at least that length of time. So many things have changed, who would have thought how low the country has sunk in many ways.

I used to be able to hold my head up high and acknowledge where I come from and live when outside the UK, now I consciously hide it.

BunnyBetChetwynnd · 10/08/2023 20:16

In the last 10 years I've left my professional career, retrained, started a business, sold a business, retired, moved house five times, volunteered, travelled, lost 3 stone, learned a foreign language, got an allotment and started to grow my own and lived on a moor and in a city.

You can do a lot in 10 years.

Jamtartforme · 10/08/2023 20:18

How funny I was thinking the exact same thing today, that 2011 was 12 years ago. It was the year I left home. It feels like 5-6 years ago, not 12. It’s gone very fast, I now have 2 children!

What spooks me is that 2011 was closer to the millennium than it is to now 🤯🤯

Comedycook · 10/08/2023 20:19

The days are long but the years are short.

Jamtartforme · 10/08/2023 20:20

Comedycook · 10/08/2023 20:19

The days are long but the years are short.

Yes, agreed. I read that as you get older, time feels the same day to day but larger chunks of time seem smaller as it’s less time relative to your increasing lifespan. If that makes sense.

weebarra · 10/08/2023 20:23

10 years ago I was about to give birth to DD and be diagnosed with breast cancer within 8 weeks. The prognosis was not good.
I didn't know whether I would see her start school or see my older boys get to high school.
I'm still here! She's about to start p6 and my oldest just got his exam results.
I feel so sad for the people I met along the way who didn't have my luck. I also lost my sister 4 years ago.

ShadowPuppets · 10/08/2023 20:26

10 years ago I was 24 and had been dating a guy for 11 months. Was just about to move into a great flat in Brixton with two of my best friends.

Now? Married to said guy, 1yo and a nearly 3yo. Have bought and sold 2 properties and living in the 3rd. Have a career rather than a job. Sadly 2st heavier and look about 15 years older but can’t complain.

10 years ago seems like another girl, another planet, tbh.

chosenone · 10/08/2023 20:28

It was 6 years before Covid started and we’re now 4 years past it! That seems odd. I’ve stayed in the same job but gone full time, moved house, got married. The kids have gone from infants to teens. We’ve had some fab holidays, birthday parties and experiences. The kids can’t remember our old house much, we moved 2015. I still feel like we’ve not been here that long 😅

Backstreets · 10/08/2023 20:28

Haha officially ten years since my last full on fabulous year. 2013 you will always be famous.

Doyouthinktheyknow · 10/08/2023 20:35

In 2013 my job was all about flexibility for my dses, I was working nights and part time to avoid childcare costs. Both dses soon to start secondary school with all the angst that went with that.

Now they are adults, both at university, I’m working full time days and my career has flourished. Never imagined I would be in the role I am. Now looking forward to stepping back when my dses are no longer financially dependent.

Time has gone so quickly. I’m 50 next year and do feel the years just fly by these days.

Pandaflop · 10/08/2023 20:38

It's gone in the blink of an eye! I'd just graduated, was living with friends and pretty much living the dream. The best time of my life in honesty, even though I love my DS and DH of course those carefree days (that you can't get back as never that young again) were bloody amazing. I say it's flown but it also seems like a lifetime ago in the same breath. I'm definitely more conscious of time passing now, I read a good theory that as you get older each day is a smaller % of your life thus far so seems to go quicker.

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Mummy2022FT · 10/08/2023 20:55

I know I heard that too. I then imagine how quick time must be going for someone like my nanna!

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mast0650 · 10/08/2023 21:03

Definitely goes quicker as you get older. I was just mentioning to a friend that next Spring it will be 10 years since my mum died. Neither of us could get over the fact that it was that long already! We've lived in this house about 3 times longer than I lived in any home as a child. Again, seems impossible!

aprilclimbs · 10/08/2023 21:05

I think it's gone quick! Especially the last few years, but it also feels like a lifetime ago - I'm a completely different person now.

10 years ago I had just left high school! I've been to college, Uni, been in a relationship for 8 years, engaged, own house and baby on the way! It's a lot to fit into a decade 😂

Blanketpolicy · 10/08/2023 21:10

I just had a memory pop up on Facebook today from 10 years ago when our labrador was just a tiny puppy. Ds was just 9 when he picked him out of a litter of wriggly black pups.

In those 10 years we've lost all our parents, that pup, our constant companion died last month and our little ds has grown into a 6ft 3in fine young man I am so proud of. It all passed in the blink of an eye.

PriamFarrl · 10/08/2023 21:13

It’s gone in a heartbeat for me. We moved into this house 10 years ago and I was in the same job. I think that without children to mark the time it’s all just carries on.

DoesItHaveKosovo · 10/08/2023 21:16

It’s gone too quickly in some ways, but in 2014-15 I was in a bit of a rut and made some positive changes that just ended up snowballing in a great way. My life is unrecognisable now and although I get wistful for being a decade younger, I’m loving it.

teenysaladandsniffofarose · 10/08/2023 21:51

2013 feels life a life time ago. My life has changed so much I could cry.

I was suicidal and felt like there was no way out and even tried to take my own life a couple years later.
Fast forward 10 years later and I have an amazing partner, beautiful son and baby number 2 on the way❤️

Tarkan · 10/08/2023 22:34

2013 was the year my life turned totally upside-down, but definitely for the better.

I broke up with my kids' dad very early in the year (it had been over for a long time really but we hung on for one last Christmas together just for the kids).

I then went on holiday by myself to Alaska (staying with friends who lived over there) and travelling so far on my own really helped me realise that I wasn't as useless as I'd been made to feel for years and years.

I had a few flings and hook-ups but nothing serious until I met my now DH at the end of the August.

We just knew when we met that it was right. We'll have been together for 10 years at the end of the month and we've been happily married for over 5 years. He's an amazing step-dad to the kids and we've been each other's rocks through a lot of hard things that have come our way in the last few years. We still can't believe it's been 10 years we've been together as it's flown by.

MavisBeacon1234 · 10/08/2023 22:35

This time 10 years ago I was freshly dumped by my long term boyfriend, moved back home and had a temp job.

10 years later married, own house, an amazing career which I'm very proud off.