Time Is Inexorable

Susie Dent wants people to explain why the same amount of time feels much longer or much shorter depending on what you're doing. When I most notice time ticking down is when I put the bins out every week because I can't believe it's been day again, she says. "It just feels like I'm on a sort of hamster wheel or a kind of film that's been speeded up" She adds: 'As the years go by, it goes faster and faster and faster'

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