One week somewhere new can feel longer than a month at home. Memories are how your brain measures time.

Duration is not measured by the clock when you look back, it is measured by how much was kept. A week full of unfamiliar detail leaves dozens of separate impressions, while a month of repeated days collapses into one blurred impression of a month. The clock says one thing and your memory says another.

If a stretch of your life is passing too fast, the answer is not to fill it with more activity. Fill it with more variety, which is a different instruction. Even changing where you spend an evening gives the week something to hold on to.