Does anyone else find the passage of time really odd and confusing? What year does it feel like to you really?

[Timeandspaceidiocy]

Five years ago in one way sounds like not that much but also like a solid block of time, but in reality was 2018 which doesn't seem that long ago. Then I think of covid and suddenly 2018 does seem like a different era completely. But still, not like a long ago time.

Then if I think say back to the Olympics in 2012 - that's obviously over a decade ago now - well in 2012, 2007 seemed fucking ages and ages ago then. Even though there's only 5 years between 2007 and 2012, the same as there is between 2018 and 2023.

2012 itself feels like ages and ages and ages ago to me. 2007 seems almost like a different period in human history.

But. It also kinda feels like we "should" maybe be at say 2009 or 2010 by now. My brain can't fully compute it's 2023. I don't feel it was that long ago since I was at uni.

I'm in my late thirties so fully suspect this is one of the side effects of not being a spring chicken anymore

But does anyone else feel like this?

How do you feel about time passing?

Looking back does it all make sense chronologically to you or seem weird and like it jumps around?

I'm fine with placing events in time until COVID. Since then, I cannot figure when anything happened.

Also - can you remember minute details of your daily living from 10 or 15 years ago?

I can't really. I remember some stuff but would love to remember it all down to the tiny details, I sort of wish I'd kept a very boring diary about what groceries I'd bought in Sainsbo's and Lidl and what I'd eaten for lunch that day

Wait until you get to my age. The 1980s seem like yesterday and how can I have colleagues born in this millennium?

Years feel like months.

My DM once told me, the older you get, the quicker time passes and she's right.

Feels like it should be 2017 to me, 2023 seems so strange.

I kept diaries for most of my teenage years then destroyed them in my 20s as I thought they were cringeworthy. I would love to read them now.

High five to my fellow discombobulated time travellers….

It’s all very weird….

Not helped by it being my sons 29th birthday today, and that the 18 months since my DP died feels like five minutes, and as for the Covid Hokey Cokey….. how many lockdowns was it?

And trying to explain to young ‘uns what life was like before technology….. I feel like a teenager and Methuselah at the same time these days….

I think it's 2012

Sooo much has happened that when I watch a TV show/ film and I don't see a smartphone then it seems ancient - and I was born in the 70's. The world before Trump, Brexit, #metoo, BLM and now the pandemic seem widly innocent to me and I cringe when I see what we used to be able to say on TV.
To me , not even 9/11 wasn't that different compared to the last 9 years. I know it's my age though and the weirdness of time dilation.

I neglected to take down Christmas fairy lights in my hallway and at this stage I’m just leaving them there - it’ll be Christmas again in a minute

I honestly still feel like it's somewhere between 2006 - 2012, mind boggling to me that it's 2023 already!

Yup totally get this.

Yes I feel like this too! I’ve never said it out loud because I thought it was me being strange! Good to know others feel like this too.

2010 - whenever I see someone was born around 2000, I think they must be a child.

Happy to validate your strangeness, it's okay you're not alone

I know! They can all legally get married and buy alcohol. It's so wrong, how are they adults?!

It blows my mind that 2011 was closer to 1999 than it is to now!

I always completely forget about the decade between 2000 and 2010 when I’m counting years!

Ah, I was just thinking that the '80s seem like yesterday and a thousand years ago all at the same time.

This thread is an existential crisis waiting to happen

I keep having a jolt about 9/11 being over 20 years ago.
I agree that time went wonky around covid - I can barely remember anything with any clarity from that period.

2017 feels like it was 5 minutes ago.

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I think its mind blowing that 2025 is only 2 years away. It makes me feel a bit sick.

2018 feels about right.

😱

What do you mean, waiting to happen?

I basically live in existential crisis mode.