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.
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.