It happens every year about this time, this anniversary of my entering upon this mortal coil.
It occurred me to reverse the numbers, (63) to 36, and find out what was happening in the world when I was at that tender age.
Fasten your seatbelts and come with me down the slippery slope of time, to the year 1994 …
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The Scream, by Edvard Munch is stolen from the National Gallery, in Oslo, Norway. (it happened again in 2004)
The Channel Tunnel, the underground tunnel between England and France opened.
Amazon opens its virtual doors for the first time. (twenty-seven years ago … scary, no?)
‘Forest Gump’, and ‘The Lion King’, win big at the Oscars.
‘Stargate’, the movie that launched a thousand TV series, premiered.
‘Star Trek: Generations’, wherein Jean Luc Picard and James Kirk team up to save the galaxy, also premiered.
Looking over the list of movies on the ‘1996 films’ page, I see a lot of movies that I remember fondly.
Here’s the funny thing though, I’ve never remembered a lot of my personal history. The big things stand out, but dates and events, and people, slip away the further away in time I get from them. This apparently is somewhat unusual. Most people tell me they can remember far more detail about their life’s passage.
So if you are from my past, and you see me walking down a street somewhere in the world and I ignore you, it’s not personal. Just stop and say, “Remember me?”… and regale me with tall tales of the adventures we shared.
Widdershins Worlds 
I am a lot like you. People and events are fading. I still have flashes of memory but if somebody asked me to recall an event chances are good I wouldn’t be able to. I wonder if perhaps they just weren’t as important as I thought they were. Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And just think of it this way: some strange man slapped you on the behind 63 years ago and you haven’t looked back. Well done my friend, well done.
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I was going through my CD’s I accumulated way back then, and, well, lets just say that my tastes have changed. 😀
Thank you for your good wishes. 😀
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Happy birthday! I will be 64 in Nov. . And Forrest Gump does not seem that long in the past. ..
Hope you have one terrific day!
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Heh, I’m sure it was only ten years ago, at the most! 😀
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All the very best of birthday good wishes, Widders.
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They are the very best kind of wishes. 😀
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Happy Birthday to You!!💕💕
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Thanks. 😀
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I’m about your age and I can’t remember a thing that happened in my personal life 36 years ago… other than getting divorced. That was definitely a reason for celebration. 🙂 Happy Birthday! I hope you have a memorable day!
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Heh, a memorable year for that alone then, 😀
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My 65th is at the end of November. I’m like you,I remember only the major things but everything else is a mixed up blur.
Wishing you great health because that’s what really matters!
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It truly is. Thanks for the wishes. 😀
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What an interesting idea. Mine at my next birthday will be a look back to when I was 17. Not sure I even want to look back at the teenage years… Have a wonderful and happy Birthday!
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Heh, agreed. My teens weren’t memorable either. 🙂
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Happy birthday!
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Thanks 😀 … it was a good day. 🙂
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I’m older than you (OK, not much). I have more to remember, and forget. Happy birthday! Hope its memorable, in a good way!
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Thanks 🙂 … a bit of a low-key day, watching the rain fall on the autumn leaves, sipping tea, that kind of thing. 😀
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My kind of day… 😃
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Best wishes for a special day!!
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Thank you kindly, m’dear. 😀
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Happy Birthday. have a good day and best wishes for the coming year. I am not going to reverse my age and look into the future!
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Thanks. 😀
Agreed. The future isn’t going to be anything to look forward to, I fear.
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I can’t relate to any of this; I am too young to have been born yet.
Happy birthday to you, squashed tomatoes and stew, bread and butt-er in the gutt-er, happy birthday to you!
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I’m not planning to be born for another couple of centuries… let these silly bastards all die off, the planet to recover a bit. 😀
Thanks for the B-Day wishes. 😀
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Hope you have a great one!
(In the middle of Last Dragon in London. Getting HUGE kick out of it!) 🙂 🙂
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Love the feedback! 😀
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Happy birthday, you youngster 😊❤️🤗🎂🍷💕
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I’ll bet you pounds to peanuts that some map index exists that identifies where all your personal Archives are.
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Probably. 🙂 I think my early years may have escaped under the radar though. 🙂
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Wishing you the happiest of Earth Days, and a smooth, interesting, and creative next journey around the sun, from G in Oz (who in 1994 was living in Darlinghurst Sydney, working at Betty’s Soup Kitchen off Oxford St, going to uni part time, and partying a lot!) ❤
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Those were the days. 😀
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Happy Birthday to another person born in the Year of the Earth Dog!
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A very good year! 😀
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An excellent year indeed!
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😀
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Happy birthday! I did the 63 thing a couple of months ago. Feels weird to be something like a senior …
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I’m still feeling 40-ish. 😀
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Happy belated
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A ‘belated’ thank you. 😀
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Another year to shine
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Happy birthday xo
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Thanks, Jay. Hope you’re feeling good these days. 😀
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Happy birthday!
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Thank’ee kindly. 😀
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(Belated) Happy Birthday! Those things you mention – can’t possibly be 25 years ago, surely? Time dilates…
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Hi there, Lee … nah, I reckon it’s only been a decade at the most! 😀
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A belated happy birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day 🙂
I didn’t have a good time when I was 36 and would very much like to forget those memories. 1996 seemed a good year though!
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Thanks 😀
… it sure had its moments. 😀
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Happy Birthday, Widds! I’m sure I read somewhere that the human brain stores long term memories as generic components and then recomposites them when/if required. Memories that are revisited often gain dendritic? connections. Others don’t. Just remember how good Mrs Widds cake tastes and you’ll be fine. 🙂
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Heh, yep, I can always rely on Mrs Widds baked goods! 😀
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I’m feeling cake-deprived. Where’s a pic of The Cake?
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