A 15 minute timeout as a kid feels like an eternity. A 15 minute break at work feels like nothing. amirite?

That's cause you actually get to do stuff when you're on break

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yeah one is negative so feels longer. The other is positive so it gors by fast.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

15 minutes for recess also felt like a long time

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It sure did, wow! I don't know why I remember that.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

What? How? For young me 15 minutes felt like 5 minutes!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

15? We had 30.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Factual

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Maybe because you WANT to be on a break- no kid wants to be on a time out

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Recently took two weeks off of work and it felt like an hour.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well, that's because one is punishment and the other is relaxation.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I feel like it has something to do with someones relative perception of time. Like when compared to an adult a child has lived less so the same duration of time is actually a larger percentage of their time alive and thus feels longer. Same idea when a kid gets upset as if somethings the worst thing ever, to them and their relatively limited experiences it very well could be the worst thing ever to them.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Long way of saying, "Time is relative to each person/object"

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It goes back to the same thing everyone seems to say, that when they were in elementary school, it seemed like summer break was six months long. I remember when I was seven, my mom told me in reality it was about 2 1/2 months and having my mind blown. I also remember freaking out over a 15-20 minute wait and it seeming like forever. It is definitely true that time seemingly speeds up as you get older. I'm in my mid-30s now and each year seems to pass faster than the last.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I'm going to start putting my coworkers in time out!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You guys are getting 15 minute breaks?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Try to sit still and do nothing for 15 minutes. Still feels like a long time.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Relativity my dudes

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I hate how accurate this is. I hate it even more being that I'm actually on break and realized idk where the last 10mins went-

by Anonymous 3 years ago

But those hour long breaks draggggg on.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It did feel like nothing as a kid as wellfor me

by Anonymous 3 years ago

This is similar to: one hour before work goes by so fast but the last hour of work just draaaaags.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Oh not nothing. A respite. An escape.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Compared to the life you lived, 15 minutes feel like nothing when you are older (teenage up mainly). But when you are a kid and have lived a handful of years, it is a larger amount of your life so it feels significantly longer. I imagine my 15 minute break feels a lot shorter for someone twice my age.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

To be fair a 15 minute recess would feel like nothing to a kid, and a 15 minute unskippable YouTube ad would feel like eternity to an adult.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

The rule of thumb is no more than 1 minute of time out per year old.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Ummm... you only got 15min timeouts?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Things change when you are older. Example: Now I'm totally into spankings and naptime.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

who's documented this ?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

i am always work .I love work

by Anonymous 3 years ago