Is it 2024 already?

The flow of time is inexplicable, years of monumental scientific and prudential advancements have also promulgated a skeleton of memories. Tried incorporating a few references from the 2000s and later decades, hope this evokes some nostalgia! As always, feedback is much welcome, sorry in advance if this bores you:)) I still recall the first day of school, in the bus too shy to shake hands Too nervous to volunteer, my confidence fading like quicksand. Kafkaesque isn't it? The slightest courage now fills me with delight. Though still in shock, as to how many years have gone by in hindsight. Who would have known a virus would have turned our lives around From infants to adults, photons from androids and mobiles us surround Wasn’t the first smartphone and the iPad not too far back? That we now have flexible OLEDs, portable quantum bits fit into a sack. Nifty isn’t it, even Captain America, Iron Man are in MCU no more? In a few years, Manga Comics, Harry Potter and Divergent would be f...