When Did Time Start Moving So Fast?

Sometimes I sit quietly and think about time. Not in a deep scientific way, but in a very simple way, like remembering how life used to feel when we were younger. Back when I was around twelve or fifteen years old, a day actually felt like a full day. We could feel the morning, the afternoon, the evening. Everything had its own space. We used to wait for Sunday the whole week so that school would be off. Waiting for that one day felt like waiting for something really special. Even the school days had their own excitement. We waited till 4 pm so that the school would end and we could finally go back home. That wait felt long, but in a good way.

Back then a year felt like a long journey. We felt every month passing. We noticed the weeks, the days. Time moved slowly and we were part of it. Life had a rhythm. There was a routine. I remember waking up early in the morning and going to the darasgah for Quran teaching. It was cold during winter mornings, and I used to carry a kangri with me to stay warm. Those mornings had a different feeling. The air was cold, the streets were quiet, and everything felt simple. After that we would go to school and continue the day. Looking back now, those small things feel so nostalgic.

But then we grew up.

And somehow those things slowly disappeared. The routine changed, the energy changed, and life started moving differently. Now sometimes it feels like the day doesn't even look like a full day anymore. It feels like two days pass the way one day used to pass before. Morning comes, then suddenly it is evening, and before we even realise it the week is over. Then a month passes, and before we know it, we are standing at the end of another year.

Time feels faster now.

I once read somewhere that the earth’s rotation has slightly changed and that time moves faster by a few milliseconds. I don’t know how true that is. I just read it somewhere and I don’t remember the details. But sometimes it really feels like that. As if time itself has started rushing.

But maybe the truth is something else.

Maybe we have started taking time for granted. Maybe we stopped noticing it. Maybe we are always in a hurry now. We rush through everything. We rush through days, through conversations, through moments. And when everything becomes a rush, time also begins to feel like it is running away.

But there is something interesting I have noticed. Whenever we sit down and truly focus on something, whenever we stop rushing and start noticing the time, it suddenly feels slower. Have you ever experienced that? When you are doing something calmly, without hurry, and you look at the clock again and again, it feels like time is moving slowly. It is almost as if time itself responds to our patience.

When we are not in a hurry, time also seems less hurried.

Maybe time hasn’t really become faster. Maybe we have become faster.

Maybe the real thing we have lost is patience.

So maybe the answer is simple. If we learn to slow down a little, if we start valuing time again, maybe we will begin to feel it again the way we once did. Because time will pass anyway. It never stops for anyone.

Waqt toh guzar hi jaata hai. We just have to make it beneficial for ourselves.

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