just wait and see

A day is a day and a week is a week. In your memory however, a length of time changes depending on how much occurred in that time period.

If you spend a week flat out doing experiencing memorable moments then thinking back the week will seem like it lasted much longer than a week.

Alternatively, an uneventful year will speed past, mostly because there aren’t enough memorable events to reference.

Compare one person who lives outside their comfort zone their whole life. They experience so much and have so many memories that retrospectively their life seemed like it lasted an eternity. Another person works their whole life, living safely and cautiously. The years begin to blur together because they are all very similar.

The difference? when death approaches one of them will look back and feel their life came and went too quick. The other will say “That sucks but it doesn’t matter, life was getting exhausting anyway”.