Today is the start of a new year. New years always make us take a moment to both look back and to look forward to what is to come. For me I look back on 2009 with some fond memories, a few milestones, and a general sense of, how did another year already pass by!? Someone described our sense of time to me before as a percentage of your life. In essence, every year you get older, and so a year is a smaller and smaller percentage of your overall age. When you’re five, waiting a year until your next birthday seems like an eternity since it is a fifth of your life, whereas 1/23 of your life goes by in a flash.

This year was a tough one for many people, especially many recent grads who found it a tough time to be thrown out into the working world. I was fortunate enough to be able to depend on my family for support and encouragement, and feel I have thus far staved off my quarter-life-crisis for another year.

In 2009 I got a job as producer, was introduced to the ways of new media, I turned 23, moved to San Francisco, unpacked my belongings in my first post-college apartment, and started a new job. Those were the big things among many many more exciting, fun, silly, & ridiculous happenings over the course of the last twelve months — many of which are documented in my 2009 Memory Bank video below. Thanks to all who made this year memorable, you know who you are!

Also, just because I really liked this video, I thought I’d share it. Refresh your memory on what happened this year as we wave goodbye to 2009, and welcome in 2010!