Just noticed in regional PCA monthly magazine I am a 20 year member! How time fly’s! Joined October 1997. Here is my old 1989 S4 when I got it, with 24k mikes on it. Still going strong in Texas now with new owner.

I’ll always miss that car!

 

Indeed time flies. My dear old departed father used to say, " Son, you get about 80 summers on this planet, you might get a few more, you may get a whole lot less, make them count for you will never ever be back here again". I have gone through 50 of them in a blink of the eye.

 

 

As we get older a year is an increasingly smaller percentage of our lives so seems to go by faster and faster.

 

That makes a whole lot of sense - always looked for an explanation of why time seems to fly by faster, as we get older.

 

Oh boy, it sure does Bob. That S4 was beautiful. Is the current owner on the board?

 

Ed, yes Jim Thompson (RedRaider1) , he has a couple of 928s.

 

Congratulations, Bob. We're all lucky to have you. I have 16 years to go.

 

First congrats to Bob on 20 years of 928 ownership! I hope to double that some day.

As for time perception, I also used to think the sense of time was related to age based on the percentage of any given period of time being less than when we were young. Then I came across an article written by a neurologist that explained how they view that phenomenon. And essentially the reason time flies is as we get older is that we tend to fall into routines and have less new experiences. The brain becomes very good at filtering out the routine in our memories leaving us with a compressed sense of time. Here is a brief explanation of that:

"The common explanation is that most external and internal experiences are new for young children, while most experiences are repetitive for adults. Children have to be extremely engaged (i.e. dedicate many neural resources or significant brain power) in the present moment because they must constantly reconfigure their mental models of the world to assimilate it, and properly behave from within. On the contrary, adults may rarely step outside of their mental habits and external routines. When an adult frequently experiences the same stimuli, their brain renders them "invisible" because the brain has already sufficiently and effectively mapped those stimuli. This phenomenon is known as neural adaptation. Thus, the brain will record fewer densely rich memories during these frequent periods of disengagement from the present moment. Consequently, the subjective perception is often that time passes by at a faster rate with age."

So the advice the that this neurologist gave in the article for slowing down time is to always be trying new things. He suggested things like taking different routes to work and trying new foods. My suggestion is always be buying new and different cars and convince your wife you are only doing it to increase your perception of time spent with her.

 

By the way, it was nice to have met you at FRENZY this year.
The 928 you have now, isn't bad at all

 

I've been giving this exact explanation to my students for years. "For you a year is 1/16th of your life....for me it's 1/50th."

 

Time flies when you're having fun, right?

 

Thirty years this month (Nov 21st) since we bought our '88s4.
Time flies like the wind ...

 

And, Fruit Flies like bananas!

 

20 years and two months since we bought our '91. This winter it's time for its 4th timing belt.