So you know that feeling you get when you realize that the high schoolers you see were born in the 90's, and that the little children on playgrounds have been born since 2000? The feeling that makes even the young feel old?

I had the opposite of that yesterday.

I was watching some special on the Discovery Channel about the first moon landing, back in 1969. My Dad walks in, and says something along the lines of "Boy, was that ever a big deal."

And then it hits me. Since it happened almost 20 years before I was born, to me it was ancient history, an interesting bit of information that had no more impact on my personal life than the founding of the Roman Empire.

But my Dad, who's just an ordinary man like me, was there. He saw it all happen, watched the crappy quality video come in live from the damn Moon. This was an actual event in his life, something he remembers quite clearly.

And for the first time since I was about 19, I felt very young again.

And now I can't stop picturing older me walking in on my kids watching a TV special on 9/11, and my mind is well and thoroughly blown.

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