HAPPY 2026!

By Edna Moreno Turner

I am sure you hear this a lot, “I can’t believe another year is gone!”

Have you noticed that when we get older time seems to go by faster than it did back when we were kids? I still remember waiting for my 18th birthday when I was 15 and it seemed like it was taking ten years instead of three. My friends used to say, “After you turn 18, the years will go super-fast!” And my friends were right…

I asked my buddy A.I. about the speed of time after we get older and here is his answer:

Years seem to speed up as we age because our brains process fewer new memories, life becomes more routine (fewer novel experiences), and each year represents a smaller proportion of our total life, making time feel compressed; fewer distinguishing events mean days blend together, while childhood's novelty stretches time out.

I think it makes perfect sense. Can you imagine how much memory I have stored inside my 60+ year old hard drive (brain) in comparison to the small events that happen in only 365 days? I will tell you something that I have been doing for 30 years. I have diaries where I take notes of all important and not-so-important events that happen every day during the year. I am also known for taking a lot of pictures of mundane things and events. Every year, on December 31st, I record a video talking about the major events like a Year Recap and I have a lot of fun doing it, especially reliving the events. I am not sure what I am going to do with all that material, but I can assure you that I went back to my little book several times later to check on some information from the past. It surprises me how many times it feels as if something happened last year and I found out it was four years ago.

This is the second year of TopockAZ and in a couple of months we will have our first anniversary! Thanks to you, we are growing and becoming very popular. Our community website is being read all over the world! So, this year, in my Year Recap, this website will be one of the major events to be remembered and all thanks to you readers, you deserve a huge credit!

Happy New Year!

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