Some thoughts on a decade

[cmdr_zoom]

We're in the final weeks of the 00s now, having never found a really satisfactory label for them that everyone could agree on. Some people find zero years awkward. I was born in one myself, which has always made calculating my age simple. I long looked forward to 2000, a number with mythic significance, a placeholder for The Future, the rolling over of the Great Odometer. And yet there were many times, in what I can now look back and see as the last years of the Cold War, that I had to acknowledge the non-zero possibility of me (and most of the population of the Northern Hemisphere) not living to see it.

But then, quite unexpectedly, the world changed.
And then, about ten years later, it changed again. (Though some would say it never did, and we just woke up to how it was for everyone else.)
Just when all the fuss over Y2K and when the Millennium officially began was winding down, and the last burps of hot air were leaving the tulip railroad dotcom bubble, came the single event that would define the next 8+ years for this country.

I've seen the Wall fall, and the Towers.
Interesting times indeed.

I hope the next decade is a better one.

Comments

[gwyd.livejournal.com]

Points for remembering the collapse of the tulip market, at least.

[kowh.livejournal.com]

The "noughties" seems to be the least offensive of the terms I've heard. They're all pretty bad though.