time flies

As I've gotten older, I've come to realize one of the reasons that the years appear to be going by faster and faster. Although strictly speaking, a year passes by at the same rate for everybody, the percentage of a year compared to one's age continues to get smaller and smaller. For example, a year to an eight-year old is one-eighth of their lives, whereas a year to an eighty-year old is just one-eightieth of their time here. There are, of course, other reasons for how time is perceived differently by the different ages that we reach.