One of those bizarre late-night browsing sessions led me to, of all things, a write-up of a social event I’d attended (hell, I arranged it) from over 18 years ago. Reading it was surreal. I was transported back to a time when everything was yet to occur — when I’d had no idea of the life that was to come. Before ruined friendships and the burden of actually living a life; when the most important thing in the world then is something you’d find absolutely inconsequential today.

It was weird — and bittersweet.

I felt, for a second, like that 18 year old. That doesn’t happen to me very often, getting lost in a nostalgia like that. It was really nice, but the crash afterwards of all the things that have happened since then — that it’s now a completely different person looking back on that… it was sobering.

Ah well, it was fun. Cheers, my friends from 1989! May we always have that much fun before life gets in the way.