[Redway]

Originally Posted by Ray.

How do you know you were 12, Redway? Did you make a note of it in your diary? Has Redway consulted his personal archives to retrieve this information?

It’s just that I remember I was in Year 7. Me and my mate were hoping the Red Bull would give us wings on Sports’ Day and make us win the race. Regardless of that, I do remember years and time-specifics. I find that’s important for tracking your evolution over time.

It’s not so much something to make note of as it is just something to give texture and backdrop to your approach to life, the past, the present and the future. It’s not unusual to be able to remember what you did and where you were at at specific ages anyway. So it’s not that deep in the first place. But in a lot of people, yes, it can be meta. Not overflowing nostalgia, but self-archiving through either a sense of the ages or lived experiences over a lifetime. But all that’s above just happening to know what year of school you were in when you had X Sports’ Day. Not sure why that would matter so much to anyone. Do you not remember your first pint?