Mirrors

Nine years.

You know when people say 'it only feels like yesterday' when they are describing how time has progressed? Well, I can't do it here.

Even after these years, I still spare a thought for my uncle.

I see and hear about new things and often wonder how he would have felt about them. In most cases, I think about the advancement in technology and whether he would have bought himself a 3D TV by now.

And then a memory floods back to me and I know for a fact he either would have or, in the very least, considered it.

I recall being in the arcades with him in the summer of 1991. There was a game - I guess marketed by Sega - and its display was like a hologram. I don"t even recall either of us playing it. We just stood in awe at it as we figured out how the image was created.

I'm heading towards the ten years since I last spoke to him mark. I can recall that conversation, too. We were chatting about the Las Vegas magic shows he had been to. We discussed the special effects and trickery similar to how we did eleven years earlier.

The guess we came up with in 1991 was the same in 2002.