Years speed up as you get older because every year is a smaller slice of your whole life. Make them memorable to slow them down.

A year at seven was an enormous fraction of everything you had lived, and at seventeen it is a much smaller share, so it seems to move faster. Routine speeds it up further, because your memory compresses days that resembled other days and keeps only the ones that stood out. Sameness is what gets deleted.

Give this month two things unlike the rest of it. A trip an hour away, a new skill, a different route home. Novelty is what your memory holds on to, and holding on is what makes a stretch of time feel wide again.