Already 20 Minutes Passed

timer,
@marlina (154130)
Canada
June 4, 2016 10:23am CST
Time sure flies when someone is having fun. I set the timer up for 20 minutes to be here and it is almost over already. I would like to know why my 20 minutes here mylotting go a lot faster than my 30 minutes walking. Can anyone here explain this strange phenomenon to me?
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@celticeagle (168473)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Jun 16
I think that you know. You enjoy it more silly.
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@celticeagle (168473)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Jun 16
@marlina .....Sometimes I am. LOL
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
Perhaps you are right!
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
@celticeagle Okay, I admit it: you are right!
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@just4him (317315)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jun 16
Here is something you totally enjoy. Walking is something you are doing because you have a need to exercise, but you might not totally enjoy it until it's over.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
I do enjoy walking as it makes me feel better but it does make me pretty tired.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
@Marty1 I couldn't do that suggestion as I mostly walk indoor now as I have a very hard time walking outside due to health problems.
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@just4him (317315)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Jun 16
@marlina It's all the exercise involved.
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@dodo19 (47336)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
5 Jun 16
It's easy to lose track of time, when you're having fun. I know I have that problem too.
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@dodo19 (47336)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
5 Jun 16
@marlina it certainly can be.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
5 Jun 16
It is a big problem.
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@jstory07 (140057)
• Roseburg, Oregon
4 Jun 16
When I go for a thirty minute walk the time goes by really quick.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
@jstory07, that's good for you. You must really enjoy it then.
@LadyDuck (472121)
• Switzerland
4 Jun 16
This is a good question, but I have no reply. What I can say is that this happens also to me.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
It is a difficult question I guess!
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
5 Jun 16
@LadyDuck Yes, and especially at the Dentist's office as it makes me very nervous there.
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@LadyDuck (472121)
• Switzerland
5 Jun 16
@marlina I think it's a question without answer. When we are waiting in the Doctors office the time seems never to pass.
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
4 Jun 16
Walking alone always seems to take longer than doing something fun, like myLotting.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
8 Jun 16
@DianneN myLotting. is indeed a lot of fun and time goes very fast when doing it.
@DianneN (247184)
• United States
11 Jun 16
@Marty1 Everything lol!
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
8 Jun 16
@Marty1 Doodles stops to smell everything. He once spent 1 1/2 hours on a ten minute walk to the beach.
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
4 Jun 16
haha, that is because walking takes more effort than sitting down and type. I think that is common. Sleeping is the best because there is no effort involve in it. I think given a choice of waking up early to walk or continue to sleep on, I will continue to sleep on.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
So, according to you, that is a matter of the effort we put into doing something.
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@tech40 (23121)
• Philippines
6 Jun 16
Because we focused on doing mylot and we didn't notice the time unlike walking
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
6 Jun 16
True
@skysnap (20153)
4 Jun 16
yes, that quote always comes into my mind when I have fun.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
4 Jun 16
time wait for no one.You are having fun.But fun is out doors
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
4 Jun 16
Hello Alfredo, Talking about "time", I couldn't help but think of this wonderful song "As Time Goes By". Here is a link so you can listen to it.
Casablanca won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Its lead character Humphrey Bogart, it's memorable line "Play it again Sam" and pervasive theme ...
@Tampa_girl7 (50561)
• United States
7 Jun 16
It really does pass quickly.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
5 Jun 16
I'm having trouble to get the website to open fast enough, I seem to wait a long time for everything to show up. I don't know if its the site or my computer but I'm not happy and often leave the computer because it takes too long. And Time Flies when you are having fun....
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
5 Jun 16
i am having problem too with the internet right now, too slow.
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• India
5 Jun 16
@marlina Someone asked this question 6 months ago and I would repeat that reply. Einstein was asked to explain relativity without involvement of mathematics. He said - you are sitting with your girlfriend, a time of 1 hour looks like a 1 minute. And if you are sitting on a hot stove for 1 minute, it feels like an hour. This is relativity. It is relativity which resulted in time passage problem as in your case. Here is logic: Time passes normally. However, we are enjoying the task. We are busy and we DO NOT notice the time passed. On the other hand, do something which you do not like (but are forced to do that) and most of the time, you will STARE at the watch. In both cases, the speed of time passage is same. In your case, you are enjoying your work and hence do not look at time. So, you do not know that those 20 minutes have passed. Hope that it is clear now.
@trivia79 (7828)
• El Segundo, California
5 Jun 16
it's because when you are having fun, time flies so fast. when you are bored and got nothing to do, time slows down a bit. and when you are sad, time seems so stagnant.
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@marlina (154130)
• Canada
5 Jun 16
True enough!
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@succeednow (1633)
• Singapore
5 Jun 16
It's all in the mind. 20 minutes is 20 minutes no matter what you're doing or who is doing. You just did not notice or keep track of the time when you are so busy having fun. Fun is a real time killer!
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
5 Jun 16
or reading that time flies by too!
@Lucky15 (37374)
• Philippines
5 Jun 16
Like when i a m catching yesterday...faster than.doing.laundry
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
5 Jun 16
well, maybe because you are seated, reading, typing your comments after reading, then you don't check on the time, that is why the 20 minutes is like 5 minutes for you.
• India
5 Jun 16
when your having fun....time flies simple
@Potorino (293)
5 Jun 16
because law of time is already can be cheated lmao.