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四十代の大台に乗ったとき、四十代は早いよ、と言われた。五十代はもっと早いと言われ、全くそれは正しかった。あと二年余で還暦（注１）だってさ。ウッソー、と若い人を真似て言ってみるだけれど、その言葉はもう使われていないそうだ。 十歳の時の一年は全人生の十分の一だから結構長い。しかし五十七歳の一年は、五十七分の一の分量しかない。 結局、時間の感覚は、記憶で作られている何かに比較されて、長く感じたり短く感じたりするのかも知れない。同じ大きさの太陽が中天と山祭（注２）ではまるで違って見えるように、知らず知らずのうちに、自分の記憶の総量を目盛りにして、今を測っているのだろう。
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English
When I hit the milestone of my 40s, people told me, "The 40s go by fast." Then they said the 50s go by even faster, and they were completely right. In just over two years, I'll be turning 60. I tried imitating young people by saying, "No way!", but apparently, that phrase isn't even used anymore. When you are ten years old, one year is a tenth of your entire life, so it feels quite long. But at fifty-seven, one year is only a fifty-seventh of your life. In the end, our perception of time might feel long or short because it is compared against something built from our memories. Just as the sun, despite being the exact same size, looks completely different high in the sky versus at the mountain ridge, perhaps without realizing it, we are measuring the present using the total sum of our memories as a scale.
Multiple Choice Questions (1)
Question 1この文章によると、四十代より五十代はもっと早いのはなぜか。
