What if as I get older, like a Mandela effect, everyone's understanding of what the average life span is increases?

I know this sounds like the basis for a cult or something but it's kind of a crazy thought.

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Sort of like Zeno's Paradox? You never get old because when you're sixty, people say, oh sixty's not that old, seventy is old and when you're seventy, people say seventy is the new fifty and when you're eighty people say eighty's nothing, people are living past a hundred all the time these days...? Something like that?
- Yeah!
  
  Edit: but in this case, collectively, what everyone understands to be old changes and say it was 70-80 but now it's 100-150.
  
  Or even better time itself becomes nebulous as you get older. Like the task that use to take 60 mins takes 1 minute because what everyone understands to be 1 minute to be changes.
- 90 years young
What?
- Sorry, it's very difficult to explain. In retrospect, I don't think many people will get it. I apologize.
  
  Edit: it was stupid to ask
  
  Nah. If you're gonna put this in any community, this is the one...though I'll admit the question could use some clarification.
Maybe you're thinking of something along the lines of Bishop Berkeley's Theory of Immaterialism.

Essentially, things only exist and continue to exist because we agree that they do and expect them to remain that way.

Also featured in the children's book Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey, which I adored when I was younger.
Then you could say you're quantum ~~immortal~~ young.

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