"Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never." -pg. 178
This passage related to my life right now. I am getting ready for college and yet I can still remember watching U.K basketball games when I was three. Sometimes my childhood feels like yesterday and other times it seems like its been forever. O'Brien is describing his time from Vietnam to the present, but I'm sure this thought has occured to many people. We can't go back in life, although most of the time our only aim is forward. I know that I am praying that the year flies by. But when we do take the time to look back, we often find that a great deal of our lives have passed. We rarely forget moments that affected us, but over time they seem to blur around the edges, like maybe they happened to someone else and we only heard about them. It is important to realize that all of these instances, whether they were 10 or 100 years ago, have etched out a pat of our personality which we carry with us today.
Or sometimes the past seems like it never happened
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