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That is one aspect of it: if you are 10, then 1 year is 10% of your whole life, more if you consider the first few to not really be conscious. If you are 50 it's only 2%.
But I think another factor is what stays in our memories vs what gets filtered out. If you are young, you'll experience lots of "first times", major changes, and defining moments. As you get older there are more parts of your life that are routine and repetitive. Looking back at a year/a whole life what are the things you can vividly remember?
This is also what imo causes the shift in perception for the covid period. Suddenly a lot of events that usually create memorable experiences didn't happen. No parties, festivals, meeting new people, or vacations in foreign places. For most of us it will have been a major change initially, but relatively quickly routines setting in.
Infinite life when you are born.
By the time you're born, you've been aware of the passage of time for, I'm guessing, at least six months, probably more. And the whole infinity problem dissolves when you consider that time awareness probably doesn't just appear in one go, not to mention how that intermingles with consciousness and other levels of awareness.