You got me thinking even more about this and I had another weird thought. My grandchildren will likely be born further from the start of WWI than I was from the start of The Civil War.
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > ...Next year will mark 100 years since World War 1 began. > > > > Why do I find that weird? I am not sure, it just does. > > > Time is strange. I was born in 1973. When I was a kid and I found a coin > with a 1964 date on it I thought it was an ancient artifact. I did then > (and still today) think of the 50s as being so long before my time and > really unimaginably old stuff. > > We're having our first kid in December and the 90's will be just as far > back for my child as the 50's are for me. Time relative to an ever > expanding lifetime is a really bizarre thing. > > WW1 somehow seems as old to me as Roman times. I know logically that it > wasn't, but somehow it just seems further back. 100 years isn't all that > long ago, but it feels like forever. > > -Cameron > > .... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
