Comment by majormajor

When you're a kid school takes up much of your day and yet it makes time feel like it's passing more slowly.

I think agency and expectations have a lot to do with it.

At one point you think the adults are keeping you from doing more fun stuff. You think when you're older you'll make your own decisions and things will be better.

Vs... you have no plans to make your future any different than your present. You know you're decades away from being old enough to retire. The evening means "not working" but it also means "nothing of any real interest or meaning." You aren't hoping to make the baseball or dance team next year. You aren't new to everything, trying to figure out relationships with friends and more for the first time.