Every 10 years except 2003
It recently struck me that something momentous happened in my life every 10 years. Creepy or what?
I was born in 1953 and recently realised that something life changing has happened every 10 years except in 2003 - which I can’t remember. Check this list:
1953 - year born.
1963 - put into accelerated education stream for grammar school attendance. This was royally fucked up two years later when the school system was changed.
1973 - marriage, bought first house, moved from the South East to Yorkshire.
1983 - made partner in a local firm of Chartered Accountants
1993 - retired as partner, got divorced, went to university.
2003 - can’t recall anything specific. Probably because I was slowly going broke in the aftermath of the dot com blowout. In the wider world, there was plenty of interesting stuff going on.
2013 - cofounded diginomica as a science experiment that worked out rather well.
2023 - massive health scare. Stopped smoking after 55 years.
You might ask - what about children being born and remarriage? These were important and life changing but it’s the 10 year thing that caught my attention. Why?
In each case, (except 1953!) I remember the events with a clarity that brings back a lot of detail around what happened at the time and the accompanying emotions.
I’m not projecting about what might happen in 2033. I might not make it that far and am sufficiently cautious to avoid tempting fate whenever possible.
Do you have a similar experience or am I just weird?