Time

Time is a great conundrum. On one hand it is steady on another it is not. When I was in elementary school and high school I new all to well how steady time was. That famous clock that hung in every room was consistently steady - that is when I watched it. When I was not watching the clock it would either seem to travel slow or fast depending on the particular day. It seemed that the more bored I was the slower it would move.
The other example of the inconsistency of time is around my birthday. When I was young my birthday's seemed to be so far apart. When one came it seemed that the last one was eons ago. Now that I am older a year goes by quite fast and each new year seems to go faster. Both of these are examples of how our subjective experience effects the flow of time. One year for a five year old is one fifth of their life, and one year of a 33 year old is one thirty third. My life experience and the activity that I am engaged in alters my relationship to time.