For some reason today I watched “Forrest Gump”; and throughout the film I was repeating to myself “It’s been a while.”

The truth is I neither remember the last nor the first time I saw “Forrest Gump”. Like, I don’t remember the last time I heard a Back Street Boys song. I don’t remember the last time I was excited about a new release for Boyzon. And I don’t remember the last time I talked about Princess Diana’s unfortunate death and Elton John’s “Gone with the wind”. Do you remember that day? It was 31th of August 1997.

In 2005 I read “The Davinci code” for the first time. But was it before that, or after, when I read “The Alchemist“? The Alchemist?! .. Did we really start the Paulo Coelho hype that early?
I don’t remember. I really don’t remember..

In 1989, I remember writing down a date in one of my KG books, but did my grandfather die before that date or after? I was a little kid. Then, my uncle died. I remember that day too. Both days were the first I had to leave school early. You can say that’s the furthest memory I have. My mother sometimes talk about stuff I did when I was young, yet.. it’s not there in my head. Sometimes I think I remember something new, but then, it turns out to be exactly like what my mother said I did. So, did I do that? Or did I not?.. I don’t know. I don’t know except that, I was there someday and now I am not. Blank spaces between that small creature and this woman whose voice is talking now in my head.

We are in 2011. Can you believe it?.. 22 years after the fall of Berlin wall, and 10 years after the fall of NY towers!.. Do you understand that we are more than a decade after the 90s, currently living the first few years in a new century, and that we are actually in the middle of some page in history?

Have you ever felt you are not really living your life? Like, you are a 3rd person watching what is happening from a distance or something like that?.. I feel that now as clear as the sun in a summer day. In fact, one day I’m going to remember today, and tell myself.. that was long long time ago.. and I am sure, if I am still alive, it won’t be before long.

So, to where does time go?