[Grandpa's Grumbles] The speed at which time passes is different for my grandchild!
My grandchild is an 8-year-old in the third grade of elementary school.
Do you all remember what it felt like when you were 8 years old and experienced a year?
I feel like it was longer than the year I experience now.
That is why a year passes at an incredible speed now.
A child's growth in their first year after birth is an incredible series of changes, starting with their neck becoming steady, then rolling over, crawling, standing while holding onto things, and walking.
My grandchild's first year of growth was also a series of such changes.
I don't think such significant changes happen within a single year once you become an adult.
If such major changes occur continuously, wouldn't a year pass by slowly?
I don't think they have the sensation or memory of being a baby, though...
For a 61-year-old grandpa, one year is 1/61st of my life.
For an 8-year-old grandchild, one year is 1/8th of their life.
Even if it is the same year, when you compare one year within a lifetime, the grandchild's is a larger value.
I think this difference is the difference between the feeling of a year I had when I was an elementary school student and the year I feel now that I am a grandpa. I think that might be it.
I don't think I felt the importance of a year that much when I was young.
I felt like I had infinite time, and I thought I had enough time to do anything.
That must be what youth is, but as you get older, a year goes by so fast, so fast.
Contrary to my grandchild who is absorbing knowledge rapidly, I am forgetting things rapidly. I feel like shouting, "Time, stop!"