Why Does Time Feel Faster As You Get Older?

You find a receipt from 2017 and have to sit down. Where exactly did the last decade go?

Summer vacation used to last 400 years. The final ten minutes of a school day were a personal test of endurance. Now a month disappears between two grocery trips, somebody asks if you can believe it's October already, and you have no evidence to the contrary.

Something is taking the years, and it is not the calendar.

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