I don't know if this is normal after reaching adulthood, or after a traumatic experience, but every time I'm reminded that we're not only past 2011, but more than half a decade in the future, I feel utterly displaced by time.
Without going into TMI, I had my first serious relationship end that year (on horrible terms that affected my entire family), which still haunts me today, even if I'm mostly over it. Everything since then feels like some kind of dream world, even if I have no feelings left for that person.
But I'm not sure that's the culprit. That summer I was 22 years old and got a job at a gas station. I still sometimes wake up feeling like I'm going to have to go in to work at that gas station.
Everything since that year feels like some weird amalgam year rather than the linear time I experienced before that. Is this just what happens when you get older?
Without going into TMI, I had my first serious relationship end that year (on horrible terms that affected my entire family), which still haunts me today, even if I'm mostly over it. Everything since then feels like some kind of dream world, even if I have no feelings left for that person.
But I'm not sure that's the culprit. That summer I was 22 years old and got a job at a gas station. I still sometimes wake up feeling like I'm going to have to go in to work at that gas station.
Everything since that year feels like some weird amalgam year rather than the linear time I experienced before that. Is this just what happens when you get older?