Contemporarily In Color

     Have any of you watched the "Men in Black" movies, with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones? Well, if you have, I'm sure you remember the scenes with the neuralyzer. In the movies, the neutralizer basically acts as a mind-wiping device. Whoever is using the device can set the length of memory erased by using dials on the object, and as soon as you're flashed with it, you instantly forget your memories. I say all this because I am convinced that someone came to me in the middle of the night one day and completely wiped all of my memories of 2021 with a neuralyzer.       When I tell you I barely remember anything that happened that year, I am not exaggerating. I can't recall the classes I took, or any activities I participated in. I don't know who I talked to, or what I did AT ALL. There are only about 5 things I DO remember. That is my family adopting my dog Oliver and later getting our other dog Hazel, I remember coming to terms with the fact that I am...

      Growing up, I remember always being excited that I was going to graduate with the class of 2020. The year seemed like such a nice, even number. It looked great on school shirts and just felt so right rolling off the tongue. Everyone in my year had a joke we used to constantly tell. Each year when we moved up a grade, our new teachers would get to hear the silly, little joke. It went something like this: Person A: "Hey, what do you see yourself doing after graduation?" Person B: "I don't know, I don't have 2020 vision!"     I would always chuckle at that. Especially as someone who actually doesn't have 20/20 vision and needs glasses to see. Now,  looking back, it's unsettling. Of course, we never could've known what was to come. How much we would all lose during that year. And no, I'm not talking about trivial things like proms, or graduations. I mean everything else. Every good thing, and for some, every bad one. I lost a lot that year....