The wonder years don’t end when you grow up. They end when you stop adding new G001 s to the hard drive of your life.

Go make a new first file. It won’t be perfect. It will be wonderful . What’s your G001 ? The first memory you’d load if you could scroll back through the timeline of yourself?

The wonder years—the actual TV show—understood this. Kevin Arnold narrates his past from a future full of quiet disappointments, but the images stay young: treehouses, first heartbreaks, the back of a girl’s head in science class. We don’t realize we’re in our wonder years while we’re in them. We’re too busy wanting to be older.