4 Dec.

Arbitrary

furthering my do-nothing-this-weekend weekend, i spent a good deal of the day watching nu-metal music videos on Youtube. i wouldn't say that i had the best taste in music back in my teenage years, but i certainly wouldn't deny that i did listen to them with passion. they seemed really cool back then, especially to impressionistic teenagers (like yours truly).

10 years does seem like a long time ago, but i cannot grasp the concept of how long it actually was as opposed to, say, 3 years ago. i could pull out a photo i took in 2008 or 2009, and immediately feel like those days were eons ago. i could also tell you that last month felt like almost 10 years ago and not be the wiser. having related to CM about a particular event that possibly took place about a month ago, it certainly felt like it happened a little bit more earlier than that in our minds. and every time i meet up with old friends and we try to recall how long ago has it been since we've seen each other, i always feel like a huge block of time had been surgically taken out from the last time we met - which could've been a week ago for all i know.

time marches on without looking back and you can't help but be dragged along by its coattails. it's almost 2012 and there's only so much i'm accomplished in 2010 and 2011.