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On the November 9 broadcast of “Getsuyou kara Yofukashi” (“Monday Night Owls”), Matsuko Deluxe (54), talking with co-star Shingo Murakami, lamented how short a year feels and revealed her true feelings: “Realistically, I’m going to die in about 5 or 6 years — at least that’s how it feels.” The remark followed her asking the studio audience at the top of the show, “You all think the way time feels right now is just going to keep going forever, right?” On 5ch, many pointed to having fewer memorable experiences and an increasingly routine lifestyle as reasons a year feels shorter with age, and debate also broke out over whether the sense of time really does change between one’s student days and adult working life.
54-year-old Matsuko laments how short a year feels, admits the truth: “Realistically, I’m going to die in about 5 or 6 years — at least that’s how it feels”
Talent Matsuko Deluxe (54) appeared on Nippon TV’s “Getsuyou kara Yofukashi” (Mondays, 10pm) on the 9th. After lamenting how short a year feels, she candidly admitted she feels she has very little life left.
At the top of that day’s show, the moment she appeared in the studio with co-star Shingo Murakami, Matsuko turned to the studio audience and asked: “Hey, everyone — you think the way things feel right now is just going to keep going forever, right?”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The old guys at my office say the exact same thing.
It's not that time speeds up — it's that nothing you did sticks in your memory, so when you look back it feels like the year's already over even though you did nothing
that's the feeling.
At 55, one year is 1/55th of your life.
At 20, one year is 1/20th of your life.
That's more than double the difference in how "long" it is.
Even just going from being a student to working life, the way time felt changed for me.
Do you feel the same?
Same old grind, same old grind.
15 years from now I'll be 68 and honestly can't picture myself still being alive — I totally get this.
All that stuff with Tetsuya Komuro, Ryoko Hirosue, guys with long dyed-brown hair — that was 30 years ago.
It doesn't feel recent to me at all
it feels like the distant past.
In another 30 years I'll probably be dead
and even if I'm alive I'll be a total old man.
In 15 years I'll already be in my 60s
I don't want that, honestly I'd rather be dead by then.
But thinking about it that way, it'll go by in a flash.
Then shouldn't you just retire and live a quiet life?
Do what you want and die happy.
20 years before 55 is 35, and that still feels recent, no different from now.
But 25 years before 35 is age 10, a child — and that feels like the distant past.
I wonder if eventually even a year will start to feel short too.
She was still in her 40s or so back then.
I loved that show.
You've got to keep making happy memories right up until the end.
It's not the things you spend money on, but fun memories and experiences, that enrich your heart.
A life of just grinding through the same routine every day is boring.
My boss 30 years ago: "Young guys like you just need to work, work, work."
Glad I didn't listen to him.
So I hope she stays healthy forever.
All of Japan is wishing for it.
Nobody wants her to die.
But people eventually can't keep up with appearing on TV anymore, or they pass away.
And given how fast time has gone so far, that day isn't all that far off.
Maybe as a kid you had so little experience that you remembered everything — even pointless, meaningless memories stuck around and wouldn't fade.
Once you get older, that junk memory gets wiped away as junk while you sleep.
Re: #39
You felt time move slower as a student because you were still young.
Go back further to elementary school or kindergarten, and a year must have felt even longer still.
But that long-ago time feels like it's off in the far distance now.
Meanwhile everything from 25, 30, 40 up to now feels incredibly short.
The best life is living modestly and simply most of the time, with the occasional indulgence.
If you eat delicious food on TV every day, your standards get too high and you stop feeling as happy from it.
Also, if you're not healthy, everything else is only worth half as much — health is what matters most.
Everyone's got their own values, but
there's no point working yourself to the bone if it wrecks your health.
Background and talking points on this topic
The feeling that “a year feels shorter the older you get” is commonly explained by the fact that a year makes up a smaller fraction of your total life as you age, and by having fewer new experiences, which means fewer memorable events overall. In the thread, opinions split between those who blamed a lack of fresh experiences from an increasingly routine lifestyle, and those who said it’s simply that short-term memories don’t stick as well anymore — and there was no consensus on whether the sense of time actually changes between student life and working life. It’s worth noting that Matsuko’s comment was purely about a subjective sense of mortality, not a statement about her actual health or medical prognosis — a point that’s easy to misread. The phenomenon of one’s sense of time shifting with age is itself well documented in psychology, and isn’t something unique to any one generation.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] 54-year-old Matsuko laments how short a year feels, admits the truth: “Realistically, I’m going to die in about 5 or 6 years — at least that’s how it feels”.”
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