Wow, what happened? Another year slipped by so quickly — Happy New Year!

No getting around it, time goes by faster when you get older. I've heard about some psychological studies that have been done on our perceptions of time and the passage of time. It makes sense, what I've read -- the older you get, the quicker time seems to pass because a month, for example, represents a much smaller percentage of the time which has passed when you are, for example again, 60 years old than if you're 13 years old.

Make sense to you? Sort of makes sense to me. Personally, I think the clock just ticks faster today than it did when I was 13, or 3, or 2. I swear that must be it. I know one thing, I'm not getting any older. My wife won't allow me to get older. St. Shirley -- I call her St. Shirl for short -- is two years older than me. So, of course, she forbids me to feel "old," because she doesn't yet feel "old" and won't have such stuff happening in our family.

All that babbling aside, let me wish those of you out there who hang around with me and my truly wonderful wife St. Shirl, a very Happy New Year for the soon-to-be-here-or-already-here 2008. May it be the best year of your life so far!
[tags]time perception, old year, new year, aging, Happy New Year, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]

December 31, 2007 | Filed Under Personal News