I had a stray thought earlier about the way time speeds up when you grow up.
When you're little, a year stretches on forever. It's a huge percentage of your life so far. School is a million hours long, summer never seems to come...then suddenly the years start to go by fast enough that you can see the months passing. Then the months seem like they're passing by too fast.
And once a year becomes only a small fraction of your time on earth, it doesn't stretch out forever anymore. I don't think most people notice the point where that happens, but everyone notices the speeding up sooner or later.
I'm sure this is why older people say "it seems like just yesterday when you were a baby..."
And it's almost like science fiction to look back and know that when I was a kid, time went by at a different pace for me than for the adults around me.
I guess the end of the year made me think about it. Christmas always seemed far-off when I was 10. Now it comes and goes like crazy.
I have to try to remember it isn't the length of the year that's changed.