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The story
On the 27th, TV personality Matsuko Deluxe touched on news that French wine “Beaujolais Nouveau” had arrived early, while appearing on TOKYO MX’s information program “5-ji ni Muchu!”, offering some advice to young people: “When you’re young, you think life is long.” In response to this topic, a thread on 5channel saw a wave of posts about how the sense of time changes with age, such as “time suddenly starts feeling faster once you’re past 30” and “you start becoming aware of death around 40.” At the same time, posters also discussed the importance of failure and experience while young, turning it into a discussion that went beyond simple agreement.
Matsuko: “I really want to say this to young people” — Her advice: “When you’re young, you think life is long”
TV personality Matsuko Deluxe (53) appeared live on the 28th on TOKYO MX’s “5-ji ni Muchu!” (weekdays, 5:00 PM), where she serves as the Monday commentator, and offered up some advice for young people.
Prompted by news that the popular French wine “Beaujolais Nouveau” had arrived at Haneda Airport about two months ahead of its official release date, she talked about things that made her think, “Whoa, that’s early!”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Death starts feeling close
https://youtu.be/ofZi3gIReq0
It only feels shorter with every year that passes
If anything, it's a blessing — humans are really well-designed that way
by then your body and drive won't be able to keep up
You have to do everything you want to do while you're young
Young people already have so little money to spend on the things they want to do,
and everyone still pours it into NISA (Japan's tax-free investing scheme) or other investments
Good idea or bad idea, who knows
Up through 35 you're still just barely aware of it, but past that you're suddenly 39
Once you hit 40 it accelerates all at once — next thing you know you're 47
Then the day before your 50th birthday it hits you: "Ah… it's over"
60 basically shows up out of nowhere, feeling like it took about as long as one year did when you were young
The bubble era (Japan's late-1980s economic boom) feels like it happened about five years ago
LOL
It's terrifying how 60 just suddenly appears in front of you
but once you hit 40, life suddenly feels like it's about half over — strange how that works
Once you're past 40 you really do start thinking about death
It's like, I've already lived 40 years, that's probably enough, right? (´・ω・｀) (a droopy-eyed "sigh" emoticon)
Because of that inexperience you also do a lot of pointless things, get hurt, get your heart bruised — and those painful experiences are what stretch time out
As you mature and learn to avoid that kind of waste, you start living more efficiently, but that pursuit of efficiency and routine only grows stronger with age, which makes time feel even faster
That's not a bad thing — it means you're getting closer to the truth
Conversely, when you're young there's the pain of reality being hard to see clearly through all the noise
Once you're middle-aged and time starts feeling fast, you start valuing time more
That's exactly what pushes you to feel like you need to get things done
The drive to act on that wisdom becomes middle age's greatest strength
That's why the gap in people's character really shows after middle age
But that noise from your younger years is actually important
Even if it feels annoying at the time, by the time you actually want to hear it again, you can't anymore
Exactly right
When you're young, running headfirst into that noise — getting hurt, getting wounded, being humiliated — and pushing through it is incredibly important
You can't get that back once you're middle-aged
It's fine for kids and young people to fail over and over, and it's just as important to have an environment that forgives those failures
Today's society is tragic because it doesn't tolerate failure even from childhood on, not just in adulthood — it's become a society obsessed with picking the "socially correct" answer
it's probably also because your parents are aging fast, or passing away
My parents died young, and that's unfortunate, but
I feel like it's thanks to that that I turned into a decent adult
I became hardworking, I became independent
People grow more when they have nothing to lean on
It's great that you can say you turned a tough environment and hard experiences into strength and became a fine person,
but that conclusion is a pretty big leap
If you truly had nothing to rely on, you wouldn't have survived at all
Let's not lie about that
You mean 50, right?
In other words, a whole lifetime already exists like a single sphere,
and a person is just consciousness moving through that sphere. That movement speeds up with age
The sphere is like a ball of yarn, containing many lives layered like parallel worlds
Those could be next lives, or they could shift depending on your choices and actions — but the hypothesis is that consciousness is what moves forward through that parallel world
Apparently the Earth's rotation is speeding up too
Some psychic supposedly said so
You live an unhealthy lifestyle, eating and drinking to excess, so you'll die young
No way you're making it to your 80s
I've never once seen a super obese person in their 70s or 80s
Boo Takagi: "…"
Asei Kobayashi: "…" (both famously heavyset Japanese entertainers who nonetheless lived to old age)
Just hurry up and end already
This world is an unbeatable game for someone like me
Mr. Grim Reaper, hurry up and come collect me already
feel so incredibly long back then?
Now, summer's over in a flash
Once September rolls around… it already feels like the year's about to end
Because there was so much you didn't know yet, and the world felt vast
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Matsuko Deluxe (53) has long served as the Monday commentator on TOKYO MX’s “5-ji ni Muchu!”, and her remark here grew out of casual chatter about a topical news item — the early arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau — rather than being offered as serious life advice. The thread’s recurring theme, that “a year feels shorter the older you get,” echoes what psychology calls “Janet’s Law” (the theory that a year feels shorter the smaller its proportion is relative to the total years you’ve lived), and it struck a chord mainly with posters in their 30s and 40s. That said, opinions on why time feels faster varied widely, ranging from explanations rooted in accumulated experience and efficiency to the joking folk theory that the Earth’s rotation itself is speeding up — there was no real consensus. Note that replies containing unverified claims about Matsuko’s private life or the health of co-stars and other celebrities have been excluded.
※This article was compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Matsuko: “I really want to say this to young people” — Her advice: “When you’re young, you think life is long”.”
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