Flash NANO 2025
Day One Prompt: 14 Years Ago
I don’t remember 2011.
2011 was boring.
Nothing special or awful happened that year, for me anyhow.
Like most of us, I got up every day and went to my job. I know this because my retirement records say I worked that year. I don’t recall any one particular workday.
I went to the gym five or six times every week and ran for at least two hours every Sunday. I know this because for years I kept to that schedule. I don’t recall anything happening that year to throw that schedule off-track.
I know I saw my parents two or three times every week because that was my routine for decades and nothing happened in 2011 to interfere with that.
My kids were busy living their lives and I was too. I don't know what that means though, because I don't remember anything about our lives that year.
I’m sure during that year I had memories of loss, sadness, joy, triumph. Don’t we all, even in the most placid of times, occasionally get little jabs that take us back to our best and worst old days? That’s part of being human, isn’t it?
I’ve got stories. Just not from 2011.
Huh. I just finished writing down a bunch of years I DO remember. Then I deleted them.
Interesting, how the simple act of writing down a random series of numbers can get your pulse racing, your head spinning, your heart breaking.
Deep breaths.
One of the things my kids and I say to one another before any of us travel by plane: Have an uneventful ride.
A boring plane ride can bring you to some interesting places. So can writing about an uneventful year.
I think I prefer uneventful years.
More on that another time. Or not.
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