Comment by bryanrasmussen
6 days ago
right things that are eventful and full of change take a long time, childhood is generally eventful and full of change. If having an eventful and changing life increases the amount of subjective life we experience how should we live.
My childhood had less change than my adulthood. I've lived in different countries as an adult; I spent my childhood in one village near a town. The events I value most and recall most strongly all happened as an adult. I struggle to remember really significant childhood events. There were a few, like finally grokking a for loop in BASIC, or my first machine code execution, but the more common remembering is of undifferentiated days in school, reading, warm summer days.
But as an adult, learning how to ride motorcycles, touring; fine dining and discovering a love for fine wine; travel generally; the perspective that living in multiple countries gives you; the birth of my son, and how it changed my perception of my parents; these things were more significant and still more salient to me now. I am a very different man to the one I was at 20, and I feel I changed more between 25 and 35 than I did between 10 and 20.