Thought Experiment: I wonder if I can figure out what 25 was for me... Checked LinkedIn. Apparently I was working as a Multimedia Designer at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. Therefore I was still married. Living in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Probably riding either a BMW R90/6 or Yamaha XS1100 to work down highway 280 every day. I had long hair. I generally brought my lunch to work and ate it in this hangar, which was empty at the time. What else? Shaggy was singing Oh Carolina and Cypress Hill were Insane In The Brain, Radiohead were Creeps, and Nirvana was singing about their Heart Shaped Box. Big year for movies.... Jurassic Park, Sleepless in Seattle, Groundhog Day, Ms. Doubtfire, Cool Runnings, Robin Hood - Men in Tights, and Dazed and Confused, to name a few... Hm. Other than that, I don't remember a lot about 25 years ago.
It's so weird how memory distorts time and erases all the boring parts. I clearly remember my time abroad in Canada feeling like an incredibly long time, while simultaneously having forgotten most of the parts that made it long. And that was only three years ago. Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I kept a simple diary for a few months in Evernote back in 2012. I wonder if I can dig that up... edit: I found it, and I kept it up for almost two years! Glad I did, lots of small memories that I vaguely remember.