I think that those moments exist throughout your life, some personal, some shared. As you get older, more seem to happen more often but the emotional drama seems to reduce.

For example in no particular order, here’s a few:

• The day my grandfather died
• The first space shuttle launch
• Challenger exploding
• Leaving my birth country
• Returning to it over a decade later
• Becoming unemployed for 18 months
• September 11
• COVID
• Brexit
• Trump being elected the second time
• The Berlin wall coming down
• Deepwater Horizon
• Getting a medical diagnosis
• Asking my partner to travel around the country
• Getting paid a wage the first time
• Standing in the bathroom of the first house I lived in on my own