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Time passing and memories

Stuart333

Hello, I was wondering how others perceived the passing of time and whether you have a good memory of it all.

Probably applies more to older people but anyone can contribute.

I'm in my 50's and have quite a hazy memory of most of it.  While I am somehow aware time has passed, more seems to have passed than I really realised.

I was often very tired, i pushed myself too hard, I didn't sleep well and used alcohol to relax, not hugely but more than current guidelines (they did used to be higher).

I often had no energy or enthusiasm at the end of the work day and even at weekends I did not do much. I now wonder if I was close to burnout a lot of the time.

But NTs also say time goes faster as you get older, so I didn't know if this is all normal and I should have just have worked to live rather than lived to work. Which is the same  issue for everyone.

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  • The days can drag but the years fly by.

    I have a pretty good memory for the past, often too good, as I can remember a of stuff I wish I could forget. I've done an awful lot in my life, some of which I look back on fondly some not so much. I've never been money orrientated, I've always been a live first sort of person, I've never been a live to work person, maybe I've just never had a ob that enthralls me that much, maybe it's different for women, we tend to have more things outside of work, like children and homes to run?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I wonder if work becomes a special interest and then it becomes obsessive. That would explain some of it and how I could do it without burning out, although it has taken a toll.

    But it didn't really feel like a special interest at the time. I thought I was just being conscientious and professional, except that it was always more than other people 

    It's strange. I think I posted elsewhere that I have only just figured out what a healthy relationship with work looks like, maybe because I am less enthusiastic about the current job.

    I think it was also a distraction from other issues that I have now made progress with, which is why things have changed.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I wonder if work becomes a special interest and then it becomes obsessive. That would explain some of it and how I could do it without burning out, although it has taken a toll.

    But it didn't really feel like a special interest at the time. I thought I was just being conscientious and professional, except that it was always more than other people 

    It's strange. I think I posted elsewhere that I have only just figured out what a healthy relationship with work looks like, maybe because I am less enthusiastic about the current job.

    I think it was also a distraction from other issues that I have now made progress with, which is why things have changed.

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