I think no matter how close to the speed of light we were going we would subjectively experience time at the same speed we do now. Though even now it slows and speeds for us depending on our activities and expectations. As we slowed back down to a stop then we experience the time differential as time around us had passed so much faster.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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