Go! Smell the mugged tortoise
August 28th, 2008 by Purple13So there’s this Tortoise see and he’s down the police station.
He was found in a dustbin and the police at first suspected cruelty by an owner, but they discounted that and instead pursued a line of enquiry that it had crawled in there by itself - there such good climbers!
Once the tortoise had recovered though, and the police were able to question it, they got a different story.
It seems the Tortoise was strolling along, chewing on a lettuce leaf when it was mugged by a gang of snails who stole the lettuce leaf and left the tortoise for dead in the dustbin.
When the tortoise was pressed for a description of the hard shelled hoodlums, he could only reply….. “I dunno - it all happened so fast!”
What’s happened to you this week that blink and you’d have missed it? Has your week passed slowly or quickly and does time really speed up the older you get?
Technically, time does not speed up as you age; however, to me, it feels like it has. I think part of it has to do with the age my husband are. There a just more responsibilities, work and things to take care of. But, on the otherside of it is is balanced with perspective on what is really important. Actually, time speed up when I was married. It used to be I couldn’t wait to hit the birthday milestone, but after a certain point, which I have past, they don’t seem like milestones anymore, but a reason to celebrate that I am alive and relatively healthy!!!
As an adult, I went from attending lots of significant numbered birthdays, to attending weddings, to attending children’s birthday parties. Unfortunately, for the past couple years or so, we have had more funerals to attend than anything else. Gee…that was a downer. Yes, times speeds up when you age because the Earth rotates faster!!!
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perhaps as we get older, we get taller so we move further away from the center of the earth so our heads feel like their spinning faster - hence time ‘travels’ faster? ‘ll ask the Doctor next time i see him.
I like that theory!!!
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Love the gag - it all happened so fast!
Time is pretty relative in terms of what % you’ve lived your life. Also as the early days are pure discovery we tend to be more in the moment and transfixed with what we see, paying attention toall around us.
Then,
We get BUSY!
This week - the Olympics ended in a flash after all the media build up. 2012 here we come.
The ‘working week’ is so set by deadlines - this by this day etc that i think things seem to come round that much quicker.
As you say, as a child I think we lived for the moment but xmas and holidays always seemed to take ages to come round.
I think that time flies as though 24 hours have been shorten to 12 hours. I have been so busy working on Monday and before I knew it, Friday is around the corner. When I was a kid, school holidays seemed to be taking years to arrive but actually it is as fast as a bullet train but perhaps that time there was less worries and lesser things to do compared to present day..
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I had this exact same discussion last night (probably because we are all getting old-er) and in my eyes its a very cruel joke, not only do you lose your youth but you lose it quickly. Great.
I can’t believe I have another birthday approaching but still feel like a 14 year old, it really does seem like yesterday and I can cope with time going fast as long as what happened years ago does feel like yesterday.
Perhaps that’s the upside.
it does beg the question “what is your ideal age?” - i feel like 28 years old - still pretty invincible with loads to accomplish etc but with an idea of where i’m going. Perhaps someone will ask on health forums?
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Good to know I’m not the only one Lib! I feel 16 and I suspect that 18 tops is the maximum I’ll ever feel ha!
Hmmm.. that would make me adult and accountable right, 18?? Okay 17 then!!!
Joe, did you have to go and remind me of this tortoise see? Don’t you know a tiny tiny tortoise has been my dream pet since I’m little see and I’ve still not found one see? **snif snif** (that’s French for crying a lil, I dunno the English equivalent - or can’t remember, which amounts to the same. I think)
what would you call the tortoise though bridge? Michelle?
I feel 17 - still like I am a kid but a bit mischievious.
LOL - as in MY SHELL
ME Shell
M’shell
Michelle
Here to help.
Usain Bolt. I’m calling her Usain Bolt.
I feel 16 - still like I am a kid but a lot more mischievous ha!
Hi Purple.
The concept of time certainly does change with age.
I led a busy working life and time flew by.
Now not working I have nothing to do and all day to do it !!
My mum said the same thing - then she got Grandkids! (lol).
Hey all….
Actually it was proven that time does indeed speed up as you get older….
Not in the clocks running fast fashion.. but in your brain..
there is some sort of chemical reaction as you get older which gives the appearance of time speeding up…
Theory has it that it has more to do with lifestyle than anything else..
As you age you have more to do… and there does seem to be enough hours in the day..
It is thought that this is the reason for the speeding up of time..
conditioning…..
As for my week… it has been great.. the world stopped spinning, the puppy is mending and the housework up to date…
Yippeeee…. however if I had blinked I would missed the entire week…. I can only hope that this week runs just as fast …
Hooray!!! I’m glad you are feeling better and things are a little more “normal.”
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