I think that a lot of people feel like this post-COVID, like there's a sort of 'temporal collapse' where you feel stuck in a Big Now where Now never changes, no matter how many days do, and the pounds accumulate but not the years... I wonder if there's something to how delayed careers and life progression, and the shift to streaming/recommendation heavy media, and the apparent 'stuckness' of culture, all contribute to this feeling of being unmoored in time and being unable to realize intuitively that '30 years ago was 1994'?

I've been experimenting on my website with automatically adding to all years or dates a little subscript like '5ya'. While I thought it was clunky at first, I'm finding it helpful to be regularly reminded that when I mention something that happened in '2003', that really was '21 years ago', and I feel a little less like Billy Pilgrim.