I just got my new passport and glanced at the expiration date - August 5, 2020. Somehow it never occurred to me that I’ll actually be living in a decade beyond the 2010’s. And I realized that in 2020, I’ll be pretty old.
The last ten years have encompassed over half my life, so I feel like they’ve lasted a good while. I skimmed an old journal to see what I was up to ten years ago, and all I found was that I was a very boring child. Aside from listing every detail of my day, apparently I liked writing about my favorite books (I summarized a few of the Harry Potter books - I guess some things don’t change). And I still write about a lot of things that my 8-year-old self wrote about - family, school, music.
Anyway, my favorite line that I came across today was from an entry dated August 11, 2001 (4:00 PM, to be precise). My family was in Arizona and we had just visited the Meteor Crater.
“Thank goodness I checked my neopets into the Neolodge. They probably would have starved to death.”
