Time is our constant companion from the day we emerge from the womb (and arguably, even before then). Time also becomes your number one mortal enemy the second you draw your first breath; an invisible clock begins ticking to your eventual demise. Days, weeks, months, decades, years...no one knows except the invisible spectre of time, always present, always moving, always unforgiving. Needless to say, at the age of 39, my aforementioned perception of time may be different than a 15 year old reading this. Or even a 25 year old. One's perception of time not only changes with age, but also with events. Here are 6 ways I've noticed one's perception of time changes as life goes on.
6. Blissfully Ignorant
Humans might be unique in the fact that they're one of the few creatures on this Earth who are cognizant of their mortality. A dog or a cat have no concept of death; as far as they're concerned, they've always been here and always will be in an endless cycle of sleeping, eating, playing, getting petted, and bodily functions we won't delve into here. Plus the licking. Lots and lots of shameless genitalia licking. Even if you have two pets and one dies, the other one isn't necessarily aware that the other one has died. They will notice the absence and believe it or not, feel the pain of the absence, but they don't understand why any more than I understand why they're talking about rebooting Charmed. But I digress. Humans, for a brief time when they're very young, are blissfully ignorant of what time really is. Its most rudimentary manifestation to say, an infant, is when hunger strikes; all they know is something has happened between when a bottle or nipple was last put in their mouth until now when that gnawing pain in their stomach has returned. Yet, time as an overall concept is an alien, incomprehensible perception to them.