Apparently Time Flies When You're Old

[@michaeljaques77]

When you're 10, every day is a larger percentage of your life, when you're 40 every day is 1/4 that length by comparison. Every day blurs into the next faster and faster. :(

[@Rockin_Ross]

You quickly realize there are fewer days ahead than behind. So make each day count!

[@jeffanderson3962]

Yeah. 15 minutes was an eternity when I was a little kid back in stone age times

[@Hexinvir]

Also once you are out of school, you don't really get that same sense of time, because you have summer breaks etc, so when you are out of school and working time kinda just blurs as you said.

[@DragonmasterAlex]

@@Rockin_Ross Jack Dawson (Titanic): "To make each day count...here here!" Look where it got him!!!!!!!! :P

[@CrueHead18]

As a kid, a school year felt like forever. Now, a year is nothing.

[@randallanderson1632]

I'm 71. I was lousy at school, but I have been told that I have an unusual large number of personal memories. I have read that if something is traumatic, either good or bad, adrenaline can be released, and it can act to imprint a memory. I must have had a lot of trauma. Anyway, when older people pass away from natural causes, what the person experienced in his or her last years seems to have the most significance to the loved ones left behind. I look at my life as if it were a long mural painted on a wall with my childhood on one end, and my last years on the other end. All of the sections of the mural have approximately the same significance. It has gone by too fast.

[@clydeblair9622]

I can't stop laughing. Parents have preached that forever. I'm 75 and it couldn't be truer, like everything else they forecast. You'll get over it. 😅

[@Vvranaa]

Ive seen a lot of hockey youtubers over the past 5-6 years but the less than 10k sub THG stood out the most and was the only one I never stopped watching over time. And that is because of you behind THG. You’re genuine, I love the insight of your life along with hockey (your 2011 cup final video) and you’ve always stayed true to what THG is about. Its amazing to see the numbers you have, sometimes I cant believe how many people you’ve reached. P.S. I was loving this video, and then I got a 30 min iphone 14 pro ad based around Indian culture and it was AMAZING. Watched the entire ad, so hope that helps with the revenue 😂

[@Joshman870]

Dude, I was born in ‘94. I’ll be hitting 29 next year, doesn’t feel like it man. I’m scared but everything along the journey has helped me now. Getting old sucks, thank God I have my parents but seeing them age hurts. But enjoy every moment, THG is my guy, rediscovered my love of hockey and you are awesome man. One of my idols 🙏🏽 LETS GO RANGERS!!!

[@adamchastan2703]

Only in my 30s but I appreciate this candid talk, hope you keep making new memories!

[@rieldebonk1044]

Yep, time blurs when youre about 10-12

[@UberDurso]

THG, when you pass you will be remembered as a legend in the KZbin hockey world and beyond. I can imagine myself 30 years in the future when that time may unfortunately come thinking, “Damn, hockey guy really was a chill and cool dude who left a noticeable impact on the world, may he rest in piece.” ❤

[@lankancheetah]

While I agree with the sentiment, TEG/THG is in great physical shape. I hope he lives another 50 years!

[@patch8376]

21:30 and especially from 21:40 is Gold. I think it's social anxiety, at least on my part it was. I feel like a lot of people who "knew" me back then never actually really knew me. I had trouble "being myself" around others. I still do sometimes. I think it's gotten better with age though.

[@Railblade]

This definitely stirs me up a bit. I'm about to be 27 and yet I feel like I've been grappling with a lot of this lately. Summer of 2008 feels like just yesterday, my first summer with an Xbox 360, playing Halo 3, going on bike rides with my grandfather, watching the entirety of The X-Files with my parents, buying my first rock album. It was all so distinct and new and different. I sometimes think how things were simpler when I was growing up during the mid-2000s, where you had just enough technology to have fun, but before social media made everything toxic. But what you can't appreciate is that everyone older than you feels the same way about the decade they grew up, why it was better and for their own reasons. Sometimes it scares me to think that time just keeps accelerating because then I know there'll be a day when I stop and realize I'm suddenly 60 or 70 or maybe even 80, and my time here will be finished, and while I don't think I fear actually passing, what I fear might be just not getting to do everything I want to before then. Everyone's life takes a different path, some people hit certain milestones in their 20s, others in their 50s. A mildly optimistic realist, my only hope is that I can hit those milestones someday, knowing I'm in no way guaranteed them. They don't have to come tomorrow, but I just hope at least that they happen. Probably the thing I miss most about being young is having no concept of how fast time really is and not being able to appreciate your own innocence. We always say when we're kids "I can't wait to be older". I even catch myself sometimes thinking "I can't wait to be living out on my own". I know the day will inevitably come and I'll be sitting there, wishing I could be home, go back, etc. I realize now that perhaps the thing I wish I could have back from being a child the most would be not being able to think too much. To feel that slowness of time, to be oblivious to the world, and to believe that everything will last as it is forever. You're told as a child that the world will have changes, but you don't have a concept of that because the few years you've been around, you've never seen any. Put some decades in the bank, and you can definitely admit that the world has changed during your life. If only our existence was a simulation on par with Groundhog Day.

[@grumpy_guss]

I've been noticing time getting faster as I get older for years too. It's very very true!!! Now 45 and mentally I still feel like I'm 20, but when I exercise now I'm sore for days!

[@stephendacey8761]

"What is a yellow light", slow down...."What.....you get it. If you think you're old, I got you beat by 11 years (7/25/1962). You hit the nail on the head on just about everything regarding getting old. I just turned 60, and probably am older than all your subscribers. How many subscribers saw Bobby Orr playing in the 70's. I did many times. One time it was against Vancouver (Boston won). I grew up next to a pond and played hockey every day after school. Hockey is expensive and we were not rich, but I played youth hockey. My team was the North Stars. I remember watching the California Golden Seals on a black & White T.V. set with rabbit ears. Since California was so far from Boston the picture was blurry. I'll tell you, those days in the 70's were the best and I wouldn't trade them in for what's going on in the world today, that's for sure.

[@crystalskylight9327]

I'm a 1994 baby (28yo) and this past year (2022) went by so fast for me, by far the fastest then any other year I've lived through. I swear it was only like February not long ago, then winter rolled into spring, rolled summer, rolled into autumn, and then Christmas came out of nowhere and now it's all of a sudden the end of 2022. Time goes by ALOT fastest when you get older.

[@kyleanderson3329]

Turned 40 this year. I identify with a lot here. Oddly, the one that hits home the hardest is the summer camp comments. I worked at a summer camp when I was 15, the year after I was too old to be a camper there. I had amazing experiences that summer. I did *not* go back the summer after, and at first regretted it, but then had what was an even more amazing summer, spent with the girl who would become my future wife. My life would absolutely have been different -- probably for the worse -- had I gone back again that summer. Completely random anecdote you probably didn't need, I realize. But the point is, I feel you. We're all experiencing this crazy stuff as we whizz by on this rock in space, and what you're saying resonates with a lot of us. Cheers.

[@hattorihanzo2275]

Time does fly as you get older. '89 to '93 in my mind feels like a longer period of time than '93 to today.

[@Sarah_Rief999]

As someone who watches THG a lot, your videos mean a lot to me for being still very young. I watch them daily and appreciate everything you record and post. Thank you! :) cheers to more years to come.

[@jeffzrockhistoryresource101]

I hit the big 60 in 2000. I went through pretty much the same thing, except for me it was 60s music and TV shows (Star Trek, The Avengers, The Prisoner) but most of my jobs just numbed me though I got fairly good at what I did over time. Yes, each year passes more quicly than the previous one.

[@pyrielrising4338]

I definitely identify with this video. Some of my most vivid memories are from the summer of 1977, I was 11 years old and clearly remember standing in line with three of my friends(for several hours) to see a movie made by some guy named George Lucas, with a bunch of actors we had never heard of and Alec Guinness and nobody could understand why this guy was in a science fiction movie. That was also the summer that NY had a massive blackout in the middle of an ungodly heat wave, and a guy named David Berkowitz who had been running around shooting people sitting in parked cars at night was finally captured, among other things.....

[@daltonbaxter6892]

These philosophical vids are amazing! It feels like I’m listening to my dad and best friend at once!

[@EvanEscher]

I often find myself going back and watching highlights of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals, because that was the first Finals I ever paid attention to when I was 9 years old.

[@JPMadden]

Born in 1970. I've had similar thoughts recently: aging happens gradually, and parts of us age at different rates; and I feel young-ish mentally most of the time, but definitely not physically. I joke with my teenaged nephews that when I talk about the technological change in my lifetime, I must sound like I'm 100. My first three computers lacked a hard drive--a TI-99/4A, a Commodore 128, and a first-generation 8086 IBM PC clone. My fourth computer, a 286, had a 40-megabyte hard drive, which would not have held one music album's worth of MP3 files.

[@punkrockford]

I am literally 1 year a head of you. (Jan 1972). You are spot on. My hockey journey started in 1979. My first Kings game against the Flyers. I remember it like it was yesterday. Doesn’t feel like it was that long ago. Mind still feels young. Body disagrees. Happy 50 my friend. It’s not a bad place to be at all.

[@TheBigDaddyJay224]

Time does go faster as you get older, because you are always busy, with work, family, etc. When your younger you find yourself being bored because there appears to be less to keep yourself busy. You are correct your body starts to break down when you reach a certain age.

[@barbarian92]

I know I'm late commenting on this, but I turn 31 in January, and it feels surreal knowing that college graduation was not quite 9 years ago/high school graduation has been a decade plus. Even though I'm fairly young in the grand scheme of things, where did time go? This vid really helps me out, so thanks a ton Shannon, for your words of advice as well as your videos!

[@huhmz]

I can really feel many things you describe. I had an opportunity to go into broadcasting in a different field and I didn't do it because of the fear of being made fun of due to my appearance and it still irks me.

[@serfindukdb1776]

fantastic video Shannon. the statement of keeping yourself busy w/ new ideas/experiences to have that newness for your memory to cling to, just so our memory has something to reference, cuts deep... it's near impossible to differentiate day to day now... your videos & discord are among the things that keeps my mind fresh, so thank you for that. keep up the great content... i really do appreciate all you do... happy holidays

[@davetechme]

Some things I hate about getting old are all the death amongst family and heroes of my youth, and the smallest of injuries taking forever to heal which slowly eats away at what I used to be physically motivated to do. So yes, the brain still thinks I'm 20, but the body says slow your roll, Grandpa.

[@rodchallis8031]

At 63, yes the seasons fly by, the months seem to be over about the time you get over it being half way through. Except March. March is still a millions years long, waiting for spring.

[@Dratchev241]

for me when I look back quite honestly everything changed post sep 11 2001, everything seemed to get darker. the quality of music tv and movies went down in general, people seemed more unhappy. my city kinda had a quick death post 9/11 everything changed so many places just stopped existing or slowly crumbled to nothing. I can go around to so many places here and think oh such and such was here loved that place, sadly it died in the 2000s

[@ColonizerChan]

yeah time seems to fly, def the big advice i got early on was that eventually the body gets old in the 70s, so active hobbies should be enjoyed while they could be. I'm glad you're still using the treadmill and being active, that is very important to stay active approaching the 5-O. but don't be too discouraged by people calling you old at 50. 50 - 60 you can still be active and do physical activity. my dad even beat his college bench max at 48. keep going man and keep up the good work. love your stuff

[@leftblank]

34 here. So many things you spoke about I’d never realised but are so true. This was a great video. Thank you for making it

[@renlessard]

I am almost 52 and completely relate to everything you said in this video (not the need to have a channel but to leave some legacy of who you were as a person somehow) I also agree with your take on Ignatowski and the driving test. Pure comic gold

[@j.frankparnell3087]

The concept of nostalgia and time flying has always fascinated me. I started noticing it with the movie American Graffiti. It came out in 1973 and was a huge deal portraying the great times people had from way back in 1962. Eleven years earlier! Would people today get excited watching a movie about the summer before they went to college in 2012? Another example was when in 1980 I bought a 69 Mustang and despite being rusted and pretty worn-out, it felt like I was buying this cool, old classic car. Fast forward to today and my daily driver is 11 years old and it seems like I bought it yesterday.

[@a.p.980]

i love that i found this channel during the 2019 bruins run. you and yvonne are fantastic. solid people.

[@Tomten0]

Thank you for sharing and as someone that turns 38 in 2023, yes times do go faster now than it did before and I don't feel like I'm turning 38.

[@oneshiftatatime]

Great Jersey and Grats almost at them big 50 myself and feel the same as you.

[@ImCN65]

Didn't expect to shed a tear watching a TEG/THG video... Love you Shannon

[@chrisguardiano6143]

I certainly can attest to new experiences being helpful in terms of keeping my mind fresh. I recently went to Vegas a few weeks ago & I went to 3 casinos that I had not been to before or had not explored in detail on previous trips there. For example I explored in detail MGM Grand & found it to be absolutely awesome in terms of its size & the amount of things you can do there. I am hoping that my trip to San Jose/the Bay Area in mid February for a Kraken road game will be equally as helpful as I have never been to that part of the US before.

[@johnalwell5795]

It's amazing how fast time goes by . I now know what old people meant now that I'm old

[@psychedelicpsam1589]

I know how you feel, Shannon. 2023 will bring on the big 6-0 for me in August. And I completely agree, you don't really change internally and things that you love do disappear. I miss going to record stores and browsing all day!

[@omygodish3]

I was born in 93 I’ve been thinking of this now with having kids

[@michellerosebrown]

I’m turning 30 soon. I guess I would say that looking back in my childhood and twenties I won’t miss it. I’m writing my autobiography right now.

[@OldRustySteele]

Shannon, may you live and prosper ANOTHER 50 years! I’m 69, and in real good health for my age, but you never know. Enjoy life while you can. I think you are in a good place, doing what you like to do, and enjoying your life with Yvonne. Looking back to when I hit 50, the last 19 years seems to have gone by really quickly. But it’s been good and I hope it will be for you, too! Cheers!

[@sheldoncedwardthibault3599]

I had the same tune in my head for couple of years! Here it was "Same Old Lang Syne!"; by Dan Fogelberg (1951-2007)!

[@Thejohnhartnett628]

im 20 and i can relate, the years are getting faster and faster, and its nuts !

[@adamyounis93]

Appreciate these videos, Shannon

[@mercywilliams2698]

There’s no Johnny Carson weeknights..I am on the timeline when you could watch afternoon talk shows like Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas..conversational and casual ..times past. But now there is You Tube and THG who is also TEG..this is so welcoming of the everyday musings..not infrequently profound as well. Thank you! ✨🥰

[@yeetywet5490]

Shannon, you’re the goat forever brightening my day with the awesome and detailed hockey vids. I’m only 19 and this was a nice eye opener!

[@ianbartos7693]

I definitely get what you're saying about time passing fast. Been thinking about that often for a while. In my 40s now😂 not helping when family members are all passing away

[@DocJ58-OCB]

Hey Shannon...put a Kibosh on the "OLD PEOPLE' and "OLD MAN" stuff...I'm 64 and ya know what irks me?....young fellas like you thinking their old...lol....keep up all the great stuff on both the channels...Merr Ho Ho to you, Yvonne, and all the young'uns...and all the best to you and yours in the New Year !...Peace out from Doc, in the Great White North of Southern Ontario, Canada.✌✌

[@Entername-md1ev]

I’m 23 and am already starting to feel this lol I know I’m a baby compared to most people but from the time I was 13 to 18 felt very long while 18 to 23 kinda just flew by 😅

[@joeb2151]

Hey there, fun video. I am also turning 50 in 2023. It's weird for me because things that were so popular and important to people, I just totally missed. I was bogged down in work and other things and so when you say you feel like it was a different person in your memories, I've always said I feel like I'm a replicant from Blade Runner or something. Plugging in some memories, but they might not be yours. Being this age is strange, because we've heard and enjoyed so much music that I can go from a Megadeth song to the Go-Gos and be perfectly happy and it's not weird. That's weird.

[@6foot596]

I am 40 in a month. Time definitely accelerates sooo fast

[@jeffanderson3962]

A couple years behind you, spent most of my life in the US Northwest. Becoming more of a fuddy duddy every day as it relates to current things. Im actually going backwards to the music etc my parents liked.

[@handzus19]

Love this discussion. Thank you!

[@ScarecrOmega]

When I was younger time couldn't go faster, waiting anxiously for a day to come was agony and I would mark on my calendar the days to go. Now I can wait for those days because the less I think about it and keeping busy the faster that day eventually comes.

[@Bjornontour]

This is one of the reasons why I love your channel/s!

[@johnfarr2738]

I’ll be 41 in May so I do know what you mean about time and aging physically and mentally.

[@rockybalboa1847]

I turned 55 on Dec 20th ... seniors discount at Humptys ... lol

[@JPS47]

I'm 33 going into 34 in April. I don't feel like I'm in my 30's. The last decade feels like a blur.

[@AproposOfWetSnow]

Any tips and strategies for recapturing that feeling from your childhood? I'm finding I am feeling nostalgic like wayyyy too much, it almost feels like a mental illness. Thanks for touching on so many points that have been on my mind re: aging.

[@NotTheHockeyGuy]

Traveling to places I have never been and doing new things seems to help with that childlike wonder.

[@rockybalboa1847]

Shannon ... I hope you and Yvonne and the kids have a great Christmas... I have 1 daughter in Ontario and my other daughter will be going to her in laws for Christmas supper ... so I will be watching thru your videos.. redraft/power rankings/career to pass the time

[@jmacallar]

Great discussion….I use the measuring tape….hoping to have 80 inches (years) of quality life and here I am at 62 inches….time sure does fly….enjoy everyday the best you can….Happy New Year Shannon and thanks for all your great content!

[@SunSwipePrime]

Same age. Don't know how true this is, but I've heard that the reason that time seems to go by faster is because relatively speaking it kind of does. When you're 1, and 1 year passes, that one year has been half your life span. When you're 49 and one year passes, it's only 1/50th of your life span. I still remember when a week seemed like a long time, and a whole summer was like forever. Now, it's like I blink and where the hell did the year go?

[@kittychatalot]

Shannon is a bard of our times

[@TheRandomRedSoxGuy]

Shannon, I’m 28 and it bothers me how fast the past 5 to 7 or so years have gone. And not just years but weeks and months. It’s a little scary but you are not alone in that in that perception at ALL.

[@jamalstephenson7140]

I totally agree with Jim's driving test on Taxi! I laugh so hard every time I see it. The turkey episode on WKRP is also classic!

[@Rockin_Ross]

You quickly realize after 50 that there are more days behind than ahead. So you start to prioritize what you’re willing to trade minutes, hours or days of your life for. 😉

[@drumdrumjimmmy]

7:25 are you talking about Camp Hope??? I'm not religious either but I spent every summer at that camp growing up and I always had a very spiritual connection to being there.

[@mrchungo420lol7]

The weirdest thing is my dad took me to that camp in hope last month because that’s where he had gone

[@utahwandering2817]

I just turned 50 and I totally can relate.

[@CoolHandRobb]

I really need to deep dive into this back catalogue, seriously disappointed in myself that I only found THG/TEG about a year ago. It's fascinating to see how they have changed and stayed the same.

[@BoyNamedSue4]

“What does the yellow light mean?” Is indeed peak comedy.

[@name-vi6fs]

I'm 10 years younger, and it all comes down to new experiences. If you do the same thing every day, your brain gets used to it, and ignores it.

[@modernhockeycards]

I remember some pretty slow years in my 20s so its not a steadfast rule that it always gets faster.

[@PipeBockhodt81]

I met the late Princess Diana and the now King Charles when I was 4.

[@anson.meadows]

Time dilation lesson. “Did we just become best friends?!” “Yep!”

[@JeffKing310]

They say that you die twice. Once when your body gives out. The second time is when your name is said for the last time. I appreciate this sentiment much more now that I’m aging. And Shannon, your legacy will ensure that your name is said for years.

[@scoomey]

Fellow '73'er. I totally get that it doesn't feel like we are going to be 50. How's that possible since I'm clearly 29?!?

[@mlfoons9571]

You truly are the GOAT. Appreciate you.

[@abovewater6918]

Can't say I thought I would ever see an "Itchy and Scratchy" jersey but that thing is legit

[@keithshaz4310]

Agree 100% my life got better as I got older have a happy Christmas

[@watvat8]

I’m Mcdavids age and it doesn’t feel like he’s been in the league for a while. He’s already got 762 points. I’m already having those “in my day” moments with people

[@elee6606]

For being older, my knees swell up.

[@patch8376]

I'm hoping you'll reference the experiment that's been done casually and otherwise with people of various ages to try to estimate how long until a minute has gone by without the use of any clock. Younger people guess a minute's up after something like 30-40 seconds, whereas older people tend to let 80-90 seconds go by before they think a minute's elapsed and then they find out it's been longer than that. Add that up over a day/week/month/year and yes, that's the perception that time flies when we're old.

[@BuffaloSabresFan]

Shannon, any chance you’ll be in Seattle any time soon? Would love to do a meet up.

[@patch8376]

Also, what you say about the '80s I'd delete and insert '90s into that sentence in my case (even though I also like a lot of '80s music and a lot of retro music that goes back decades and some even beyond a century earlier). I came to the (possible) realization a short time ago, parked at a cafe and making notes and wrapping up after meeting with a client, with STP's Tiny Music... going in my earphones, that there's probably some part of my brain that because I was right in the heart of my young adolescence, 12-13, when that album came out I experience it differently than people who weren't that age at the time would. It's psychological. It's the same feeling and neural firing early-mid boomers get when they talk about the Beatles, or the Stones. I hear "Big Bang Baby it's a crash crash crash" the same way some would hear "Jumping Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas" (and I like both songs but there's something about some of the music that dropped when I was 12-14 that I have a sort of permanency of appetite for, even though I listen to anything and everything, basically whatever I'd fail a polygraph saying that I don't like, I might as well just come out and admit that I really like it. If that means multiple blasts of "Temperature" by Sean Paul while out on the go in between in between the 2022 Chilean thrash metal masterpiece that is Intruder of Reality by Insecurity then so be it. Insecurity sounds like they discovered a year in between 1986 and 1987 though, like the album was secretly released in 1986.5.).

[@icewyre]

It was the '03 finals for me. That was my first finals and I thought it was amazing, even though the Might Ducks lost. Most people, aside from the Stevens/Kariya moments, thought it was a very boring final.

[@BIGSHARKMAN]

Hey Shannon have you ever thought about getting on testosterone replacement therapy? I feel like alot of people assume its only for people who want to be muscle bound goliaths and think of it like its steroids but it has alot of benefits with energy level, beneficial effects on bone density, strength and muscle as well as cardio protective effects apparently are also documented. I'm no doctor but maybe have a chat with yours and see what they say. From everyone I've ever seen get on it, they always seem to say they feel the best they have felt since they were a kid.

[@exeter1985]

According to an Astro Physicist that I heard in an interview, there is no Law of Physics that says "Time can't go backwards." They described time as fluid and it can flow forward and/or backwards.

[@kevjones5047]

Do you remember the Drive In in Chwk? Saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail and a first... a Swedish soft-core. My fav memories of the Paramount was seeing Little Big Man with my Great Grandma and her trying to cover my eyes during the sexy stuff. Then when I was older and sitting in an almost empty theatre with my buddy Paul and seeing Peter Sellars at his best in Being There.

[@chrisstopher2277]

I think I like this crowd better. Sometimes the hockey world is just a bit snooty. Try swimming laps. Running is just bad all around for your body. Or if you can incline the treadmill it will feel like a never ending hill which everyone loves.

[@philindien]

Well, I was born a big 10 after you so the big 4-0 is coming too! Dont feel like I'm that old either! Just wanted to let you know that you are doin an awesome job and helping people (like me) more than you probably think...wanted to thank you for that! Please keep up the good work and have some great holidays! From a fellow Bruins fan (since I'm 7) from Québec! Merci Shannon!

[@lindacorwin9066]

1985 World Series? Ok, did Denkinger blow the call?

[@jakehamar8408]

After 31, life is like a roll of toilet paper. It goes by so fast.

[@thejumpyone]

Odds are, you can remember things more if you do things for the first time at least much more than the 10th or 100th time you do things. When you get older, you do fewer things for the first time so just make less memories. Fewer memories creates a perception that time is moving faster.

[@danevertt3210]

He’s right!! After a few shots……they just go down

[@JPMadden]

Wwwhhhaaattt dddoooeeesss aaa yyyeeellllllooowww llliiiggghhhttt mmmeeeaaannn???

[@DucksUpDogsDownCatsSlide]

Thanks for the content, I love your Itchy and Scratchy jersey.

[@aaronthompson2329]

I was born in 1974, I feel you brother...