You’re looking at your playlist, select the song that you like, and play it to oblivion. You still feel like the song is relatively new. You check the date the song was released. “2013,” you say. “That was only three years ago”. Wrong. It’s been ten years since the release of a lot of things. Sempiternal by Bring Me The Horizon, Iron Man 3, and even that cousin that was born in 2013 is about to turn 10 this year. Time is flying fast, isn’t it?

Sempiternal was released 25 years ago can you believe it? 😭

— 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐊𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐲 P67 (@TomKiely_) February 2, 2023

(Note: This tweet is satire. However, it gets the point across)

I was once at a Christmas party back in 2019 (which was more than three years ago at the time this article is being written). We were opening Christmas gifts, and a family friend got a makeup mirror. My aunt asked how old she was and was shocked to learn that she was 13. She then asked me my age for reference. I was 16 at the time, turning 17 the next month. This aunt has seen me grow since I was 1. I honestly can’t blame her for being shocked. She’s seen me grow, but almost every adult that I grew up with has stayed the same since I was a baby.

Time is kind of a construct. Time never really accelerates or slows down. January felt pretty short for what it was. I feel like last year’s January went on for a while. Then there’s May of 2021. I finished school early (minus going to jazz rehearsals every Tuesday morning) which meant I had a lot of free time. That month felt like it went on forever. I’m not sure whether it was the lack of productivity or the fact that the pandemic was still in full effect, but either way, it felt like an eternity.

Time will keep going, and it’s going to be you that will feel it accelerating or slowing down. But don’t be shocked when tomorrow is 2045.