When a decade changes, it makes me think more than just when a year changes.

Back on New Year’s Eve 1983 we had a party at our house and one of the guests was Terry. I remember him clearly. In front of everyone, during a toast for the new year 1984, he said:

“Do you realize that the year 2000 is as far away as 1968?”

That stunned me at the time. I grew up in the late sixties, and 1968 was very, very recent for me then. And 2000 was utopia. Heck, I’d be 43 years old in 2000, and I considered that an old man.

“Do you realize that the year 2000 is as far away as 1968” is something I have thought about on every New Year’s Eve since, and I have told this story to many a friend in the meantime.

It’s now 2020. I am in disbelief!

Do you realize that the year 2050 is as far away as 1990?