Why Do Days Seem Shorter as We Age?

Days seem shorter as we age because time moves faster when you're older than when you're little.

Imagine you have a toy train that goes around a track. When you’re 5, the train takes forever to go all the way around, it feels like hours! But when you’re grown up, the same train seems to zoom by in just a blink. That’s how time works for kids and grown-ups.

When you're little, everything is new. A trip to the park, a new toy, or learning to tie your shoes feels like it takes ages because you’re discovering things for the first time.

But when you're older, life becomes more routinized, like eating breakfast every morning. You don’t notice each small step as much, just like how you might not count each bite of cereal anymore.

Think about a toy clock that ticks tock-tock-tock. When you're little, each tick feels big and important. But when you grow up, the clock still ticks the same way, but now it all happens faster because you’re used to more things happening at once.

So, time doesn’t really move faster, it just seems that way because we experience more of it as we get older!