The way my brain works:

[exkclamation@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay

[asweetgentleman@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay Are you suggesting there's another way to think of that?

[strange_new_words@tenforward.social]

@Natasha_Jay ... and last week was 100 years ago.

[thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales]

@Natasha_Jay Accurate.

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@Natasha_Jay

Ooh, yeah. I'm just a few years older than you, and this tallies.

But, getting serious for a moment, external things seem more recent than more personal things. Marvelling at the blossom on the flowering cherry trees on the street where I grew up — that feels more timeless, and therefore more recent, than my mother kneeling down and asking if I knew which year it was, because she passed away decades ago and I'm not the little boy I was then.

[sknob@mamot.fr]

@Natasha_Jay 100% accurate
@herr_irrtum

[krnlg@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay
I typed a date this year as 2024 today..

[askpippa@c.im]

@Natasha_Jay It's amazing how often "we did that last year" was actually 9 or 10 years ago.
And "just a couple of years ago" is actually about 15-20 years ago.

[askpippa@c.im]

@Natasha_Jay @RachelThornSub The year 2000 was soooo far away from 1974. But 1974 was, what, about 20 years ago?

[abominabledrh@mastodon.ie]

@Natasha_Jay What? It's 1975, isn't it??

[robchapman@ohai.social]

@Natasha_Jay seems about right

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@Natasha_Jay
My model year 2020 car is 2 years old.

[drsuzanne@disabled.social]

@Natasha_Jay my god, is this not true???

[nickdrawthing@dice.camp]

My 2012 car is now three years old, and I'm cross the clearcoat is already flaking off in spots.

[cainmark@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay

I'm in this toot and I don't like it.

[midnitemikewrites@zirk.us]

@Natasha_Jay Get out of my head.

[davidbcohen@twit.social]

@btuftin @Natasha_Jay No, it’s an old car.

[evanwolf@mastodon.social]

@Natasha_Jay and we're closer to 2050 than 2000.

[metasilk@mstdn.social]

@Natasha_Jay kinda same

[rustoleumlove@mastodon.online]

@Twotired @Natasha_Jay @janwwbosch

i started doing this about five years ago and still do it constantly.

i will see something happened (past tense) in like 2024, and i'll think to myself "but 2024 is like 4 years from now"

or i'll see the age of an actor who i think is way, way younger than me and i'll think "oh that's not right, that person is in their 20s" reader, that person is 37