I’m currently going through the junior year of my high school, that was 20 years ago exactly. It has been 22 years since my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, had finally broken their Curse of the Bambino in 2004. The Harry Potter main book series ended 19 years ago while the film series ended 15 years ago.
Jerry Cantrell has a song called “Psychotic Break” that has the line: “Chalking up my dead friends and loved ones long gone.” When I first heard that in 2002, I thought, “man, that must be an awful feeling.” I just heard it again yesterday and after I heard that line, now I get it.