When you're a kid, moving constantly and quickly, but the world around you seems to remain in a stationary position. The summer holidays seem like an eternity and you anticipate to grow. Soon, however, you feel that your birthday come around sooner, and the cycle begins to diminish as a spiral. You're already halfway there…

From the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno and the Mnemosyne – the personification of memory in Greek mythology, the author John Koenig sets this time Zinwsyni (Zenosyne): 'The feeling that every time he goes in our lives seem smaller and smaller'. From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.