Winter Is Coming!

jmurray01 said:

I think it was yesterday that the weather report said the nights were now longer than the days!

I can't believe that is is only a few months until 2012...

I'm still trying to get myself used to writing 2011 on the top of a letter instead of 2010, and now it is going to be 2012 soon!

Where does the year go!?

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JDgreen said:

Wait until you get to be old like me, the year zips by really fast.

I read an essay a long time ago, the explanation is like this:

When you have twenty dollars in your wallet, and someone gives you twenty more, it seems amazing that you have doubled your money. Now, suppose you have a thousand, and someone gives you twenty more. Compared to your original thousand, twenty is really a pittance, although the increase in your money is THE SAME.

Now, when you are ten years old, a year is 10% of your entire life, so it seems like a long time. And when you are fifty years old, it is only 2% of your entire life, so it seems very insignificant (and short) compared to a year when you were ten years old. The year is the same to both people, yet to the older person, it will seem much shorter.

EVERYBODY GOT THAT???

Now

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jmurray01 said:

That is very interesting, and probably true...

The scary bit is that if the year seems to fly by for me now, I'll be lucky if I have enough time to get to the toilet once in the whole year when I'm 50!

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jd335 said:

jm i hope the one time you got to go in that year that you make therein time.:laughing:

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Bison said:

Life is like a roll of toilet paper,there seems lots when you start out,but the roll gets smaller faster towards the end:frown:

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