Suddenly I discover I'm not the only one who somehow thinks anything that happened in the '90s only took place a couple of years ago. I feel much better now.
I have this cognitive dissonance. When I see "1997" written on a page, I think "long ago". Recently I heard someone say they started college in 1997, and my reaction was "oh, they're older than me"... except I started in 1996. I have no idea.
Then again, I told the doctor at my last appointment that I was 24, which is off by a fair bit, so maybe I'm just confused in general. (In my defense, I was there because I was sick. Being confused is allowed when you're sick.)
I have this, too, only an expanded version, where the decades closer to where I am get crunched. It's, like, a car from the 1990s is not an "old" car; my knee injury from 1997 was a very "short time ago"; and the space between biographical events is in a constant state of shaping (did I start eating fish again two... three... six years ago? Who knows?).
Oh, and folks born in the 1980s still seem young to me. "How could you not have been born when Boy George, Duran Duran and Modern Talking were around?"
When I find out that someone I haven't met in person has a birthdate after 1980, I immediately flag that person as A Teenager. (Yes, this includes people my age.)
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Then again, I told the doctor at my last appointment that I was 24, which is off by a fair bit, so maybe I'm just confused in general. (In my defense, I was there because I was sick. Being confused is allowed when you're sick.)
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Oh, and folks born in the 1980s still seem young to me. "How could you not have been born when Boy George, Duran Duran and Modern Talking were around?"
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