To think the last 30 years have flown by

[Paul2023]

Obviously its depends on how you look at things and how old you were.But does anyone else think the last 30 years have flown by in the blink of an eye ?

I know the world has changed a lot in that time too but even so 1994 doesn’t seem that far in the past.

I started secondary school almost 30 years ago. I can still remember walking through the gates on my first day, the teachers , the kids, the smell of the hallway , the smell of my brand new uniform! The school dinners! The confusion of navigating around a secondary school with hundreds of other lost kids!

Even 1990, I remember moving house that year and that was 34 years ago! The World Cup in Italy was on at the time.

Again , also in 1994 we moved house again and I remember viewing it so clearly, amongst other houses!

The D Day 50th anniversary too.

Its scary to think that if I added that same amount of time to my age now that would make me 71..

Time really goes by so fast!

It really does

I'm 32 and I agree 😁

Life is short. People always say it but you don't really understand it until you reach middle age!

Hell yes. One minute I was young mum with two littlies now I am looking retirement in the eye.

Yup. I’m 34 and remember it all like it was yesterday. Feel it so much more keenly since having my kids. I asked them the other day and they feel like their life has been long (they’re 9 & 6) which is normal for kids of course and I’m glad they feel that.
But hey. Ageing is a privilege and I’d rather it fly by than stop dead 🙌🏻
Also it speeds up because when you’re 7, 1 year is a 7th of your life so feels ages. When you’re 50 a year is a tiny increment, 1/50th, so it flies.

Yes I feel the same. I also started secondary in 1994 and remember it like yesterday. That said I don't remember much only snippets from before covid for some reason. Since covid the years have flown by like weeks.

now I'm 54, I think changing role every few years has helped slow down the passing of time. I feel like my most recent job change slowed down time a tiny bit but yes the last ten years have indeed flown past!

40 this year OP? (I am)
It feels like a very long time ago to me, starting secondary school , the bit I can't get my head around is that I met some of my best friends at uni and I've now had more of my life knowing them than not, and I felt so grown up moving away as a fresher and I was a mere child!

It's certainly true that time goes more quickly as you get older. Make the best of it, we are only here once.

Hmm 30 years takes me back to when I was 15 and it feels like a lifetime ago. I was a different person, my world was very different. Since then many people have died or friends move on and are forgotten.

The weeks fly by, and the years. It doesn't feel like that long ago since I had young dc but now I've got a teen and a tween. Still feels like I was a different person. I'm happy enough with life and I hope I have my life again to live.

My mum used to say that old age creeps up on you. Now I am 68 which I find hard to believe, I agree with her.

It's a whole lifetime and a second ago at the same time. Time is so strange but we are so lucky to have experienced it

Yes it so does. There is a thread about working in the 1980s which only seem a little while ago to me, it was 40 years ago!

41 soon

It's true. I think about the music in 1990 everyone listening to the Stone Roses, then Oasis and Blur and a few years ago I saw an ad for Father's Day saying get this music for your dad! But I suppose it's like the Beatles seemed so far in the past when we were in the 90's but for older people it just felt like yesterday (no pun intended).

Definitely. Thirty years is exactly half my lifetime, and it's the lifetime of my eldest DS. It seems like only yesterday that he was a newborn. It's gone so fast.

Yep I'm 45, we moved house in July 1994 and 30 years have flown by.

Definitely! I left school in 1994, it doesn't feel like 30 years ago!

I'm 48 and my childhood seems a 1000 years ago. It used to feel fairly recent but since covid, as a poster said above, time has changed. I feel like the present is very very present now, and the past is almost entirely gone.

That's really interesting @SlowlyForward can you elaborate more on this?

not really, sorry.

Oh god yes, I feel exactly the same, especially recently. DS has just finished his GCSES and left secondary. DD has just finished college. I can remember doing both myself like it was yesterday. I can remember how I felt, who I was with, the layout of the school, the clothes I had on. It's just gone so fast. I've actually been feeling a bit emotional about it all. My parents (who always seemed so young and invincible) are getting older and more fragile. I can remember my mum tuning 30 and I'm way past that now. It's a very weird feeling!

I was born in 1994 and I think that time has really started flying since I've had children of my own. I also remember my own parents when they were around my age (30) and in my head that's the age they're kind of frozen at... Young, with boundless energy... It is strange to see them getting older and makes me a little sad even though they're still thankfully in good health.

We were celebrating the Millennium almost a quarter of a century ago, but that was surely only a few years since!

Yeah I remember the talk about the millennium bug! The government even sent leaflets to everyone to tell everyone about it..
doesn’t seem that long ago..