The measurement of time is relative. It flows more slowly at lower altitudes than at higher ones, and it’s slower for a person running than for one standing still. Time flows subjectively. We’ve all had the experience of
dreaming several hours’ or days’ worth of events during a short nap. Scientists have formulas for translating time differences into velocity or gravity. You can’t really measure time in years or months. Time moves at its slowest during childhood. A year for you is not the same as a year for me. One of your years could be a single day for me. A few of my days could be dozens of years to you. In but a few of my days, therefore, a child can obtain an amount of knowledge and experience that would take me aeons to accumulate. This should be expressed in a mathematical formula, and the formula should be made available in textbooks. After all, people don’t believe anything that isn’t expressed in numbers.
If that were to happen, grown-ups would stop thinking of children’s time as insignificant. If only they realized that you are in fact being forced to sacrifice hundreds of years for the sake of the last few days of your life, the world would be a different place… at least a little bit.

– Bo-Young Kim

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