Twenty Years

Twenty years?  Really?  Are you one of those people who say “Graduation feels just like yesterday?”  Because I am not.  Yesterday doesn’t even feel like yesterday, and high school feels like a million years ago.  As far as I am concerned, middle school occurred during the Jurassic era.  Or maybe this is what twenty years actually feels like - A really long time.

If we were wondering in the wilderness of the Hebrew Bible, our time of exile would be half-way over and Moses would be getting very old.  For those of us who just survived Nashville’s 13 year cicada plague, twenty years is more than 1.5 cicada cycles.  That's a lot of bugs.  And historians estimate that it took twenty years to build the great pyramid.  Wow.  Assuming a growth rate of .5 inches per month, if I had stopped cutting my hair at graduation, my hair would be long enough for me to audition for the part of Rapunzel in the stage adaptation of Tangled.  I would need to learn to sing first, but the fact remains...twenty years is a long time.

What was life like in 1991?  Oprah had only been on the air for five years and we were completely clueless about her favorite things.  The kids of Beverly Hills 90210 were still in high school and the friends had yet to visit Central Perk.  A lot has changed.  And possibly some things have stayed the same.  Maybe we haven't built a great pyramid, but we are all here twenty years later, and that seems like cause for a celebration.