Robert makes claim to only one original thought. Every year seems to go faster than the year before. Everyone makes that observation, even senile elders with nothing but time on the hands as they await the inevitable end.
Why does time seem to continuously accelerate, why do the days, weeks, months andyears pass faster and faster? For a child waiting for Christmas or her next birthday, a year is an eternity. For a fifteen year old waiting for his driver’s license months take forever.
What is the first birthday you remember? Third? Fourth? Fifth? Sixth? It makes no difference. The time between that first and the next takes forever. Why? Because it is forever. That year is one hundred percent of that child’s memory.
At twenty-five, the time between one birthday and the next is four percent of your memory. At fifty the time between one Christmas and the next reduces to two percent of your memory. At one hundred, each year is only one percent of your memory. Longer times become smaller slivers of our memory of our life. Time accelerates. Time always appears to be going faster and faster.