This may be a good or bad thing, depending on what is keeping you busy.
I need to find the perceptive Stephen Appleby cartoon that expresses this very well. It shows a guy riding an escalator which represents life and getting older; this character moans about life going too fast and immediately the escalator turns into a ramp. Of course, faced with this greater struggle our character bemoans his lot even more vosciferously.
(I liked it so much I cut it out and put in a portfolio - the physical kind. Today I would photograph and upload ... I'd digitised it).
I think this New Scientist article is saying take up Kite-surfing or rock-climbing.
Or gymnastics for the mind.
I feel for one year doing an MA course with the OU I have experienced three.
'People with busy lives don't necessarily live longer, but they might feel as if they do.'
All this is from a New Scientist news story 29 Jan 2011.
So how does someone gaoled for 25 years feel?
'Our brains use the world around us to keep track of time, and the more there is going on, the slower time feels.'
I'd hardly say I felt that time was grinding to a halt, but this last 12 months, with the OU MAODE in the vanguard, I've packed in a good deal. It's starting to feel like 'Groundhog Day' at the point where Bill Murray (Phil Connors) has gone positive.
People with busy lives are happier, so long as the degree of business is something that they control.
“If you want to get something done, give it to a busy person.”
Find out more in 'Current Biology'
I relish phrases such as 'adaptive use of stochastically evolving dynamic stimuli' and 'a process of Bayesian inference based on expectations of change in the natural environment.' These phrases are food for the brain, like eating gizzards for the first timne, as I recall doing at the Auberge Les Allouettes age 15. I had this habit of always trying something I'd had not tried before; this I never attempted again. I did take to steak tartar
Neuroscience interests me; my steak tartare.
Which is another way, I am sure, to stretch time - keep a diary, blog, do an OU course, and so live in the past, present and the future.