The past is something we often look back with fond memories.
The past, according to many, was much more different than today, with eras such as the 20th century regarded as the past and maybe even the early years of the 21st century is regarded as the past.
2010, 2011, 2012, the years where it said that the internet’s golden age, where everybody just wanted to have fun and escape the harsh reality of life. But if you think about it, 2010 was about a decade ago despite appearing as a more recent year. Knowing this, it hits you like a train and makes you think it went by within just a flash.
Remember, 10 years ago is fairly distant but at the same time, it feels also recent.
“Remember back then when…” is a phrase we use with friends to look back what happened in the past, and how we express the joy of perceive that back then was much more simpler.
Remember how your past experiences felt like they just happened yesterday even though they happened years ago? That’s how everybody felt about the early 2010s. The time to be the in the middle of the golden age of the internet. Where things such as Youtube were beginning to emerge. It hurts to know that 2010 was 11 years ago, 2011 was 10 years ago, 2012 was 9 years ago and so forth.
It’s hard to imagine that 2012 was 9 years ago, which I consider one of the most significant year during the 2010s and a lot of stuff happened such as 2012 London Summer Olympics, Gangnam Style being the first Youtube video achieving 1 billion views, and of course, who could forget the infamous “end of the world 2012 phenomenon.
Nearly everyone has a soft spot for the early 2010s, well because the internet was beginning to be a large cultural influence around the world. Many people look back with fond memories about this era long gone where considered it to be a “much more simpler and less cynical time.” With this feeling, our emotions are connected with time, a feeling what we know as nostalgia, where we look back with feelings of happiness since they were young and carefree, and we look back with feelings of sadness because we know it’s a time we could never go back to.
The past is like the other side of a cliff, we can look back but not go back, we can only move forward.
Remember, don’t cry because it ended, smile because it happened.
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