# I'm Sixty One **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221 "2020-01-10T15:13:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221/21 "2020-01-13T03:04:31Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I believe that in general as people age, they grow in wisdom. The really unwise may manage to be killed-off while young. But I’ll agree with the old (at least 40 years) guy in my broadcast electronics program when I was 20. He said his father looked at him and sighed, “The older he gets, the dumber he gets.” That’s me. I’ll also paraphrase RA Heinlein: “It’s amazing how much ‘mature wisdom’ resembles ‘too tired to fuck with it’”. That’s my wisdom. Compute the cost/benefit ratio, then bail out. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221/22 "2020-01-13T03:18:48Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > Hello AHunter3. > > I believe that in general as people age, they grow in wisdom. So please allow me to ask you a question about aging and the passage of time and please feel free to give me as much wisdom as you would care to share. > > Can you give me any insight into the speed of the passage of time? By that I mean, have you found that the older you became, the faster time seemed to travel? Oh, absolutely. > [@](#): > > Would you agree that the time passed between age 50 and age 60 was considerable faster for you than the time passed between ate 40 and age 50? Noticeably so. I spotted it a long long time ago. When I was in my 30s, I typed up ages on a sheet of paper with dots between the numbers. I used a formula so that the number of dots between (let’s say) the 10th and 11th year were double the number of dots that you’d encounter between the 20th and 21st year. It scaled pretty well except for the less-than-one-year-old part which would end up having an infinite number of dots. By the ages of 109 and 110 there was one single dot between the numbers. Anyway, yeah, the notion is that a person experiences a year (or a month or whatever) as being n/totalN where n is that interval and totalN is the total number of internals of that size you’ve lived through. So when you’re five, a single year is 1/5 of a lifetime. When you’re fifty, a year is 1/50 of a lifetime so of course it’s smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221/23 "2020-01-13T10:34:15Z")
I just popped in to say that I’m not that familiar with the OP’s work (as is about to become obvious), but from the general tone of their posts I always assumed they were late 20s/early 30s. Good for you and happy birthday! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221/24 "2020-01-13T12:46:22Z")
Thank you very much AHunter3. IMO, that wss a splendid piece of wisdom. I will value that always. ---
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221/25 "2020-01-13T20:02:00Z")
You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older And now you’re even older And now you’re even older You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older And now you’re older still Time Is marching on And time Is still marching on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-sixty-one/846221.md?page=1)