doyouknowme MM 中秋快樂！

It's wonderful that you still remember the report. Thank you very much for providing the link. I listened to the audio, read the transcript, and read even part of the comments left by other listeners. I personally am the best convinced by those who said that it's the older people's disengagement, less focus, and multitasking make them feel time slips faster. This is a very good reminder. I enjoyed learning from it.

I also like the peom one of the listeners provided there:

William McCormick (Bill38) wrote:

Hearing this report brought to mind a very pretty poem I read some time ago. It took me two days to find it. Here it is for anyone who might like to enjoy it.

A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YEAR by Thomas Campbell (1837)

The more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages:
A day to childhood seems like a year,
And years like passing ages.

The gladsome current of our youth,
Ere passions yet disorders,
Steals, lingering like a river smooth,
Along its grassy borders.

But as the care-worn cheek grows wan,
And sorrow's shafts fly thicker,
Ye stars, that measure life to man,
Why seem your courses quicker?

When joys have lost their bloom and breath,
And life itself is vapid,
Why, as we reach the Falls of death,
Feel we its tide more rapid?

It may be strange-yet who would change
Time's course to slower speeding;
When one by one our friends have gone,
And left our bosoms bleeding?

Heaven gives our years of fading strength
Indemnifying fleetness;
And those of youth, a seeming length,
Proportioned to their sweetness.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 8:19:38 PM