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capt. mike
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good Q DK....
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
Here for a good time.....not a long time! |
Why does time move by faster the older you get? When I was younger, the years lasted forever! |
there is a concept taught to me by an architect many years ago called "psychic distance" when we were flying to Rocky Point to meet on a development
in the late 80s/early 90s.
He said the 1st time you go to a place it seems to take longer than when you've been there and return using the same route. They actually used this
precept in his training i guess. Or he took a lot of psychology as an undergrad...
Anyway it makes sense. So as we get older time moves faster.
He was a brilliant resort designer and land planner. Sadly he developed acute early onset Alzeimer's disease at age 54 which stole his mind in less
than 3 years and killed him before he hit 57. this was over 10 years ago before drug advances in that disease were progressing. In the end he could
only color on paper using magic markers - that seemed to make him happy and keep him occupied - that for a guy who laid out and planned/designed 5
star resort complexes for 30 years prior!
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
\"Remember there is a big difference between kneeling down and bending over....\"
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David K
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I can recall that when I was 20, I remember that being 10 years old was like forever ago... eons away and barely remember all the (non-Baja) details!
Double that to age 40, and age 20 was like not long ago at all, yet twice the period of time for age 20 back to age 10. Like real fast.
At 54, age 40 seems pretty recent... but my daughter was just 8 years old then... and today she is almost 22, I have a grand daughter who is nearly 2!
I know that past 14 years is a 'long time', but it happened so fast!
I know one thing for sure, going to Baja makes you younger, and I need to get back more often than I have been!
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TMW
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The last 10 or so years I worked before retirement I would go to work on Monday and it semed like the next day was Friday. I thought it was because I
was so busy. But since I retired it seems to continue, but since everyday seems like Saturday I may be confused.
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redmesa
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"He said the 1st time you go to a place it seems to take longer than when you've been there and return using the same route. They actually used this
precept in his training i guess. Or he took a lot of psychology as an undergrad..."
This may be true but I have driven I-5 south for 30 years and I'll be damn if it does not get longer everytime. If I want to slow down time all I
have to do is get on the road to Baja.
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vgabndo
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Redmesa, I have to ditto that. The drive from the Oregon border to Bakersdiego seems to take longer the more times I do it.
I have also made a number of trips to Washington, seven hours from here. This is always done with other men who are kindred souls on their way to or
from volunteer work to which we are committed. The three new men I met last trip made the journey pass in what seemed like a couple hours! This has
always been the case with that kind of company. I love it.
Southbound, I admit I have anxiety about the border crossing, and getting through the "gauntlet" and down to El Rosario. That anxiety, and the DEEP
ABIDING HUNGER to be back in Baja, make the trek interminable.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
He said the 1st time you go to a place it seems to take longer than when you've been there and return using the same route.
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That makes sense to me as well for the following reasons. When travelling the days seem longer and fuller. As someone once told me "When you travel
you really live". He was talking about a 3 month vacation touring north africa in a vw bus. However, most of our lives are really fairly repetitive
and times flies past. When you're young everything seems new and interesting.
Another explanation is that we forget how to play as we get older. Perhaps our travels are a form of adult playing. That couple, defrag, are likely
experiencing very long days.
One of the characteristics of baja nomads, in general, is that they have retained the ability to play. In fact they prioritize their lives so that
playing is of greater importance than work.
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woody with a view
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i think it goes along the lines of when you're a kid there is forever in front of you and that is how you see things. and looking back you have such a
short life to reference.
when you are older you have a longer period to reference when looking back and less time in front of you. therefore, time seems like it's going faster
when it really is that you have less time ahead of you.
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thebajarunner
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Do the math
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
Here for a good time.....not a long time! |
Why does time move by faster the older you get? When I was younger, the years lasted forever! |
When you are 10 a year is 10% of your existence.
When you are 20 a year is 5% of your existence
When you are 70 (sigh) a year is just 1.4% of your existence.
Sorry to reduce such a magical thought down to such mundane numbers, but psychologists will confirm that concept.
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Paula
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nice one, Blanca. that is my favorite poem. it has always reminded me of the dirt roads of baja! |
Ni, no no, not at all Baja. For starters there are no yellow woods in Baja
Sorry Woody, just feeling Nihilistic tonight 
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woody with a view
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i know, but this still makes sense:
"And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth"
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David K
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Location: San Diego County
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| Quote: | Originally posted by thebajarunner
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
Here for a good time.....not a long time! |
Why does time move by faster the older you get? When I was younger, the years lasted forever! |
When you are 10 a year is 10% of your existence.
When you are 20 a year is 5% of your existence
When you are 70 (sigh) a year is just 1.4% of your existence.
Sorry to reduce such a magical thought down to such mundane numbers, but psychologists will confirm that concept. |
I see, so life for the one per-centers is pretty fast!?
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Cypress
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thebajarunner, You're right! It's one of those math equations. I'm sure a Nomad will fine tune it.
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