Shared date weirdness

[vvvexation]

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.

Comments

[aleeceh.livejournal.com]

I have no sense of time whatsoever. I always have to calculate how long ago things happened based on proximity to events whose date I recall for some reason.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

From your subject line, I was expecting a story about "going out to dinner with Mary and Casey" or something of the like. I'm amused.

(and glad that you feel better)

[terpsichoros.livejournal.com]

I do that, too, though sometimes not just based off 2000. Anything which happened after about 1988 is "recent" to me.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Heh. Going out to dinner with Mary and Casey has never really been weird.

[capnkjb.livejournal.com]

You are not alone.

[darthsunshine.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you on that one. Catches me up all the time.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yay gay movies!

[capnkjb.livejournal.com]

I seriously thought they were more photoshopped Hobbit pictures, but I was mistaken!

[ratontheroad.livejournal.com]

Amen... I definitely have this feeling all the time.

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

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.)

[caesia.livejournal.com]

I was all of fourteen in 2000, and I've still caught myself thinking things like, "Well, it's a 1990 Integra, so it's ten years old..."

[hadar-aviram.livejournal.com]

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?"

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

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.)