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Question #4631: Time

I read in a book that time perception changes while aging, while time in itself cannot change.
A young kind has lived 5 years so 1 year is an enormous amount of time in his perception. At 50 years old probably he will feel time as faster as one year is a smaller fraction of his life. Seems a reasonable theory, to me.
 
Time is an extremely complex subject and a simple answer can't really suffice here. You could say that there is only an "eternal now", past and future are just constructs we create to explain the chronology of events. But it is my understanding that time IS relative. Since we live in a physical world, it will always take time to do something [move from one point to another, even if that is non-physical, like a goal]. The way time is relative is the speed at which you get from point A to B. The perception of time can drastically change in meditation as well.

But you won't find 2 people side by side aging differently or something like that.
 

Al Jilwah: Chapter IV

"It is my desire that all my followers unite in a bond of unity, lest those who are without prevail against them." - Satan

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