I was putting mics on kids at Willingboro High School today.  We were talking about how I used to perform when I was in high school.  It later occurred to me that when I was acting on stage in high school, many of these kids weren’t even born or were no more than 2.

In about two months, I’ll be turning 30.  That doesn’t bother me.  The biggest change I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older is simply that my perception of time changes.  I think I’ve talked about this here before, but it’s interesting how, when you’re in school, 4 years can seem like an eternity.  When you’re a freshman in high school, you can’t fathom the amount of time it’ll be before you’re a senior.  When you’re older, 4 years isn’t such a big deal anymore.

And yet my whole perception has really shifted in the last year or so.  Consider this: I was watching an episode of Seinfeld with Michelle the other day, and we determined that the episode was probably from 1991.  Now, Seinfeld doesn’t seem like that long ago, and 1991 definitely doesn’t seem like that long ago.  But it was 15 years ago.  15 years.  That’s entirely HALF of my lifetime ago.  Now consider this one: I’ve now been with Ali for 10 years.  I’ve been with her for a third of my life.  In another 10 years, I’ll have been with her for fully half of my life, so that in 10 years+ I’ll have been with her for a larger portion of my life than I haven’t been with her, and when I’m, say, 80, the portion of my life that I’ll have not been with her will really be a very small portion of my life.

Weird, huh?

Am I the only one who finds it fascinating to look at the “Top 25 Most Played” song list on their iTunes?  I mean, I look at it, and I think, “How did THAT song end up being played that often?”  I mostly listen to my songs on Party Shuffle, so it’s shuffling through everything, and yet there are some songs that are clearly played more than others.  How does that happen?  And some of the songs that are on there?  Weird….

Now that I have more workable archives, I was reading some old stuff, and I happened to click on September 2001 and came across this post.

It’s amazing how life has seemingly returned to normal, how we rarely mention or seem to think about September 11th the way we did at the time.  I commented that I didn’t think we would ever get back to normal, and although 9/11 is part of our collective consciousness now, we have pretty much resumed life as we did before it happened (or, at least, I have).  Is that a testament to our spirit to move on, or an indication of our short attention spans?