To ask if five years for you feels like a long time

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I’m currently reading a book where it switches to five years ahead for the person. In this book it’s like five years is a long time away but to me it feels like nothing. Do you feel like five years is a long time?

It seems like quite a long time to me - if I think what has happened in the last five years it’s a lot. At the same time, it is easy to remember so...
How old are you OP? Wondering if age has anything to do with the perception. I’m 55 by the way.

Yes and no. The older I've got the less seems to change.

A lot CAN happen. But then a life can dramatically change in a lot less time, making an eventful month feel a lifetime. Five years can be gone quickly when looking back, but might have included some very long days to get through.

It all depends on so many things!

In the past five years I've moved country three times (and my two DDs have started school plus attended 3 schools), had a variety of voluntary jobs, learnt new skills, met hundreds of new people, lost a relative. I've got a new niece, and three new godchildren. On a wider scale we've had Brexit and a Pandemic. There's been the refugee crisis. There's been elections. Five years ago the major health story was Ebola.

A lot can happen in 5 years

Seems like a lifetime ago, my life was very different then. I'm mid 30s now.

Well, it does and it doesn't. In a way, 5 years ago feels like a long time ago for me, I think possibly because I had some big life changes since then.

But I can hardly bring myself to believe that 2005 is FIFTEEN FUCKING YEARS ago wtf! That feels like it was also maybe 5 years ago?

Sorry, that makes no sense, I have issues about experiencing the passing of time

Looking back, no. Looking forward, yes.

Although five years ago one if my friends was single and had been for years. She is now married, living in a different country and about to give birth to twins. Literally everything has changed for her.

Is the book “In Five Years” by Rebecca Serle? I’m curious because I read it the other day.

I'm in my 50s, so 5 years is the blink of an eye.

However, to my 18 yrs old, 5 years ago, or even 5 years hence is a lifetime.

Five years ago I took my toddler and baby to the park.
They’re mid twenties now. School life is a blur. Uni ended almost as soon as they started.
( I’ll book me coffin...)

It depends in some ways it seems like nothing but then a lot can change in five years.

5 years ago I was still with my ex and hadn’t met DP (who I’m now engaged to and have a 2yo DD with) and I lived in a different city so it feels like a lifetime ago!

Five years ago I was 34 with a 6 yo DS. He kept having mini seizures, possibly petit mal. We were going through lots of tests and appointments. There were other problems at school surrounding handwriting and work ethic.

Fast-forward five years, the seizures disappeared, he's a thriving 11 yo liked by peers and teachers with a real talent for English.

For our DC at least it's a different world. For DH and me we both have much better jobs and a much nicer house. 2015 seems like a lifetime ago. I realise this sounds like a humblebrag, but we've worked hard to make our world a better place (fingers crossed we can keep it that way).

When I think about 5 years passing and while I'm living it, yes. Once it's passed, no

I was just looking at some videos of DS1 5 years ago and he is completely unrecognisable!

Our lives were totally different, although many things are the same.

If I'd skipped forwards those 5 years to now I think I would feel incredibly disorientated and like it had been an incredible amount of time.

Likewise if I skipped 5 years into the future - DS1 would be 17 (!!!!) and DS2 7. And who knows what will happen with my job situation because I could go into any number of directions at the moment. I'm sure it won't be long until we're there but it will be a totally different situation to our lives right now.