Welcome to the first window, my lovely Mortals.

While doing some organizing (to help combat the kraken) I came across my middle school and high school yearbooks. Naturally I opened them up, and I was instantly looking through the Bright Window of Yesterday.

It’s amazing how much time has passed, and how much I’ve grown as a person.

It is strange that every time I think back to my childhood, everything just seems so bright and happy. Perhaps that is the way it is with everyone, we all see things as brighter than they are today.

As I gazed upon the familiar faces of those I attended school with, I felt a floodgate of memories and warm feelings open up. These small things we forget about as time passes us by, returning just as suddenly and just as powerful.

Out of curiosity, I turned to the wonders of social media to see what has become of those I spent so much time around as a youth. Many of them, if not most, have families of their own now. They are also leaving their twenties behind and entering their thirties. The torch has been officially passed on to my generation to be the adults now.

Yet, a lot of things from my generation’s past are becoming relevant again.

For example, just the other week, I was walking around an old mall I frequented when I was a teenager, and people (including myself) were wandering about catching certain “pocket monsters” while an old Britney Spears song played overhead. For a brief few moments, it was the late 90s once again. It was quite surreal, really.

So many fantastic adventures were had back in the day. But we must not linger too long within the past, or we may become absorbed by it.

 

It is at this time that we turn to a different window, dearest Mortals…