To think that life is so short?

[springloves]

I'm only in my mid twenties but I feel like over the last few years I've realised how short life is and how quickly time goes. I'm now the age my parents were when they had me, it just feels weird how quickly life cycles through. It feels like some cruel secret that has been kept from me, how quickly life goes. I can't believe it's 2021 and 2011 was 10 years ago... It felt like one minute my age group were immature, reckless university students and now they're stable adults with careers buying houses and getting engaged.

I know it's the longest thing we will ever experience but it still feels so short and goes by so quickly.

@Fgs1

Someone once told me life is like a toilet roll, the closer you are to the end the quicker it goes by

Lol!

@Sparklingbrook
That poster is genius. It would either inspire me or depress me😂

@Wondermule well that video certainly makes you realise your impact on the world.

I will be 59 this year and I can't believe how time has flown in since my twenties. We are all here on this earth for a relatively short time we need to make it count.The old saying "life is too short" is so true for many scenarios life chucks at us. We owe it to ourselves and those around us to live life to the full and that saying again has different connotations for all of us.

After seeing friends in their 40's and 50's die young and working as a nurse and midwife all my working life I know that life is the most precious gift you will ever receive so for every baby that I have seen into this world I say have a happy life and I hope they can make their dreams their reality without too many regrets.

This is something that gives me the heebeegeebees...lol...I'm 54, where did that go...in my head I'm still young, I want to play games, run around..but I'm expected to behave like a middle aged woman with adult kids!

I am not sure I like the way that it's half filled in @Thedogscollar, ok for maybe a 19 year old but not so much for the mother of one. IIRC they also do year long ones which I think I could cope with!

I live my life in a perpetual state of appreciating it in case the parts/people I love are taken away from me. I had trauma as a child and I never, ever take for granted safety and happiness and loved ones. I try to think about how wonderful parts of my day were every night in bed. Sunshine or food or walks or my DD smiling or music and on and on. I hold onto that 'my whole life flashed before my eyes' before you die/nearly die and try to make sure I acknowledge stuff so those images are well loved memories when they it does happen. I always think of the births of my children, the pivotal songs, the kiss of falling in love, the first time I walk into a house. I appreciate my life in all its messy, painful, joyful memories.

@TimeForTeaAndG

I will be 40 this year and I'm not sure how I'm here already.

I'm 40 next year and I'm like, I was only 20 the other day.

@ItscoldinAlaska

I live my life in a perpetual state of appreciating it in case the parts/people I love are taken away from me. I had trauma as a child and I never, ever take for granted safety and happiness and loved ones. I try to think about how wonderful parts of my day were every night in bed. Sunshine or food or walks or my DD smiling or music and on and on. I hold onto that 'my whole life flashed before my eyes' before you die/nearly die and try to make sure I acknowledge stuff so those images are well loved memories when they it does happen. I always think of the births of my children, the pivotal songs, the kiss of falling in love, the first time I walk into a house. I appreciate my life in all its messy, painful, joyful memories.

That's beautiful. I wish I thought like that.

Ok I'm going to buck the trend and say YABU! I'm about to turn 50 and 50 years feels like a very long time to me! I don't feel like I was 25 yesterday at all - I feel like I'm the age I am! I often feel that certain weeks or months have passed really quickly compared with others, but I don't really feel that about the passing of the years in general. Maybe I'm weird.

I met DP (now DH) when I was 43 and he was 57 and it's been thirteen years now. The time really seems to have flown and this has prompted me to think that when we have had our next thirteen years I will be 70 and DH will be 83 😳

Watch the Disney film Soul, it's lovely.

@ItscoldinAlaska, that's beautiful, and inspirational.

Time has always felt like my enemy. Like there isn't enough of it, like it passes too quickly, like it takes so much away from me on its irreversible merciless march, like I can never keep up with it and be and do all the things I feel I should.

That said, having had children has given me so much meaning and purpose, and now makes my days feel big enough to deserve that precious time that is passing.

Thank god. I'm only 40 and I'm already knackered.

Sometimes I wake up confused after a dream and think I'm in my 20s...then start recalibrating upwards - 30s, 40s and then the final realisation that I'm 51.

It's gone both fast, and slow. I read a book the other day with someone in their 50s musing that they probably had 20 more Christmas trees to buy. That brought the shortness of time home to me.