You probably have a base year for orienting your life even if you aren’t aware of it. Explanations/valuations for major life events trace back to it.
You likely also periodically rebase to a year other than your birth year.
I’ve rebased thrice: 1999, 2009, 2015
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1985, 1999, 2006, 2011.
But my birth year still serves as the reflection point that defines "near history" for me. Near history is the backward shadow of my personal history. The older I get, the further back near history goes.
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Not sure. For me time is a spatially-projected spiral with events stuck on it, that flat-lines into the rest of history somewhere in the late 90s. Can't really point at a single base or anchor event on it.
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2007 (teenage depression)
2013 (marriage)
2015 (adulting depression)
Surprised to realize I gloss over 2010 (military enlistment). I guess it was a puppet show in comparison
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Great observation. 2001, 2008, and (probably) 2018 for me.
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Probably 2002 and 2013. Significant events happened before and after those years, but I think those were the times when my mindset itself changed.
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