I don't think it's only my own impression—because I asked around and saw other people's reactions too—but it seems to me the older I get the quicker time seems to pass.
It may be the speed of the society nowadays, but I also believe it has something to do with the age. The older I get the more aware I become of how quickly time passes and how much I still want to do and probably will only partly reach, if I'm lucky...
As we know, on Hive the beginning of each month is coming with a Hive Power Up Day (Hive Creators team made a nice interactive page dedicated to the event) and the beginning of a new Power Up Month challenge, for those who participate.
Last month, 48 users powered up or posted with 100% HP rewards every day of the month. I am one of them, despite only posting 5 times in November. This challenge is more about the consistency or habit of powering up, rather than big amounts. One can power up once a big amount and be done with it, without being interested in this challenge.
On the HPUD side, I've done something more "radical" than usually for the past many months. I powered up much more HIVE, since keeping a good chunk liquid makes less and less sense and hasn't been supported by reality (i.e. market conditions) for some time.
Today I powered up a little over 1,182 HIVE on gadrian:
and 100 HIVE on gadrian-sp:
While the former account is my posting account and I won't hold myself back from powering down at a later point if that is my plan at the time, gadrian-sp is my staking account, which is very unlikely to power down except in very special circumstances (like... HIVE going to 10 dollars, lol).
Either way, it felt like the right conditions to put back to work some of my liquid HIVE for a change.
Initially, I only powered up 1k HIVE to gadrian, but then I noticed something interesting. If I had added the rest, my total HP under control on gadrian for curation purposes (i.e. its own stake + delegated from gadrian-sp), would hit a very round number: 50000. So, I did it and you can see in the image below I now have 50k HP of curation power, so to speak.
Happy HPUD!