Machado: Blame the 'Vacation Paradox' for why it feels like time is passing faster than ever before

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Machado: Blame the 'Vacation Paradox' for why it feels like time is passing faster than ever before
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While we can't stop the hands of time, there are things we can do to make it feel like we're slowing it down. Part of this is reframing what it means to be — and get — 'old.' - via healthing_ca HavenTorontoCA CARP healthing aging ageism

We talked about what she would do in her new place. Did she plan to travel, I asked. I wondered if she would still plant vegetables, which she loved to do. She would be moving into a house just around the corner that she and her husband had bought years ago to rent. She shook her head slowly, describing how much smaller it was than her house now, and that there wasn’t really a place to plant anything, let alone cultivate a garden.The average Canadian lives 82.

Plus there’s so much uncertainty about getting older: Will I be healthy? Will I be able to do all that I want to? Will I have enough money — and courage — to have adventures? showed that, basically, we measure time based on new memories, and new memories, in a way, slow the perception of time passing. There’sthat describes the sense we sometimes get when we look back on a fabulous trip that racked up a ton of cool memories. In hindsight, the time away always seems longer than it actually was.Use that lens to examine an aging life, and that where-did-the-time-go feeling makes perfect sense.

Although we can’t actually slow time down — imagine if we could? — according to the experts, there are things we can do to spice things up and put a stake in the hands of time.“How can we stop that feeling of things going too fast, of missing out on our own lives? It comes back to learning new things,” neuroscientist Patricia Costello told NBC.

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