Posted on Friday, 1 February 2008 by mattlittle
As many of the readers of this blog will know, my dad (Wes) died earlier this year. 4 weeks ago tomorrow in fact. He was 61, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer of the bowel and liver, and the 2 years the doctors had estimated that he had left turned into 2 months. So [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 25 November 2007 by mattlittle
2 years is a good length of time. It’s the amount of time it takes to:
witness a baby learn to smile, laugh, walk, talk, and feed herself
pass 5 A-levels
explore the world, visiting all 193 member states of the United Nations spending at least 3 days in each
learn to speak a new language fluently
cook and [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 25 November 2007 by mattlittle
noun
Psychology – the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.
disagreeable familiarity or sameness: The new television season had a sense of déjà vu about it—the same old plots and characters with new names.
[Origin 1900–05 from French: literally ‘already seen’ ]
Déjà vu is a phenomenon that [...]
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