No Reminder Necessary

This is going to be the week of top ten lists, stunningly visual retrospectives and thoughtful analyses of the decade that is about to end. I don't need to be reminded; I was there. So were the past ten years particularly different or unique when it comes to decades? No, not in the slightest, unless you haven't lived through more than a few of them (or don't have much interest in history). It certainly was new for us, just like every second, minute, day and month might be, and we made it special by being there. But the decade measure is as arbitrary as the substance it purports to track is shockingly common.