# Why Age 18 May Feel Like Life’s Midpoint

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2092212722607739026
- Source account: [@Rainmaker1973](https://x.com/Rainmaker1973)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:33
- Published: 2026-08-25
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1ToProcX4Vqi/en/why-age-18-may-feel-like-life-s-midpoint

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1ToProcX4Vqi/en/why-age-18-may-feel-like-life-s-midpoint) We all know that if you live to be eighty, the midpoint of your life is forty. But you've probably noticed that when you were a kid, a single day felt like a lifetime. Now that you're older, days fly by like a rocket. That's because our perception of time isn't linear, it's logarithmic.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1ToProcX4Vqi/en/why-age-18-may-feel-like-life-s-midpoint?t=18) Assuming your first memories start at age four and based on an average life expectancy of eighty-one years, under a logarithmic model of time perception, the true midpoint of your life is exactly eighteen.