How do you feel about the pace of modern life?

[Flexington]

I'm unsure. Really it's the amount and level of expectations that have changed.

As the technology grew, it allowed us to access and absorb more at a quickening rate. That increase in speed, along with allowing us to compete on a global scale as opposed to say...hometowns or states back in the days have us from a social and mental standpoint playing catch up.

 

[Fillerguy]

Nothing happens

 

[donalon]

It's all about perception... The phenomena is known is known as 'log time'.

As we age, a year becomes a smaller fraction of our entire lives up to that point. A year for a 5-year-old is one fifth (or 20%) of their life so far, but a year to a 50-year old is one fiftieth of their life (or 2% of it) so it seems to pass ten times faster.

 

[Amo Husserl]

That was said in the 80s when the seeds of the quickening were first being sprinkled.

Breh, you in rare form.

Modern life outpaced the ones keeping time.
Disconnect from their time and stay on your own time.
Only rats race, bewildered and amazed they will always come up short.
Lot of folks out there lost because they can't keep up.
Money don't buy time.

 

[maxamusa]

I've been making a conscious effort to appreciate the current moment a lot more. Cause OP thread been on my mind. It feels like calendars are flipping so MFing fast. People bring up all these stories that I have to pretend to remember....crazy.

Being able to dictate your own schedule also can have an effect on how you perceive things. I use to always be focused on the future. Always thinking of the next move. I think it helped get me to where I am but I for sure didn't really get to full effect of those past moments.

nowadays all the little moments to me have so much more value than any event ever could. weird

 

[Complexion]

This really is it because at the heart of it time is an illusion and calendars are entirely unnatural when compared to natures rhythm. As the VHS metaphor in the OP attests we have shifted from a slower BPM to a faster beat and thus the trick is to simply realize there is actually nothing but the moment.

The gifts of the present that have been we call the past and the ones to come are potential. Unwrap now and the rest clicks like a straight line in Tetris so forget multitasking and juggling a million things with fragmented awareness. Just handle here. Now. The moment.

 

[Uitomy]

I’d also like to say we are PUSHED to feel like we don’t have any time. “Time is money” “you only live once” “the hood die young” quotes like those make it seem like if you want to succeed you need to do it NOW. As a artist in multiple fields, I’ve really only just now started to get in my bag in photography and electronic music production, BUT I’m 27, just started learning guitar, and piano, just started learning music theory, just started understand film developing, just started learning blender. It takes months to years learning just one of those practices, so for a lot of people at my age they think it’s “too late” for them, mainly based off some false notion that making it in life is some young man’s game.


That was long winded but I say that to say that once you let go of your age being so particular, you can do most things you think of to high proficiency, cause the only thing that does change is your age but the fundamentals of most crafts are essentially eternal. So go learn! Learn like a child, be a child!

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

All I can say is life move fast when you live the fast life