i wanted to think about time; i wanted

The launch of the first iPhone in 2007. Cleopatra reigned from 51-30 BCE. Cleopatra lived closer in time to this year than to the building of the Great Pyramid, which was completed around 2560 BCE.

The map of the world I learned is no longer the map today.

my body remembers, but I do not:

The scar in the middle of my tongue.

The industrial revolution’s "mechanization of time" or the "industrialization of sleep."

Why, since puberty, I experience the world as if it were projected like a film.

1889: Nintendo was founded and the Eiffel Tower was being built.

Our tongues were named, classified, codified, and filed under “Filipino.”

events that shaped today's species:

The Cagebird Trade, resulting in Asian songbirds having shorter songs, to be less detectable.

The transfer of the brown tree snake to Guam during WWII.

The Building of Cities.

when a type of future was replaced by another:

1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

China’s entry into the WTO in 2001.

My parents’ choice between Philippines, Japan, or Hawai’i.

CRISPR.

DC over AC.

The Great Oxygenation Event.

神奈川条約 Kanagawa Jōyaku.

The Toba Supervolcano eruption.

Chicxulub.

things about the timeline I try to remember:

The pyramids were completed around 2560 BCE, while the last known population of woolly mammoths existed on Wrangel Island until about 1650 BCE.

Confucius died around 479 BCE, while Buddha is believed to have lived from approximately 563 to 483 BCE.

The Moon landing (1969) is closer to the Wright brothers' first flight (1903) than to today.