Lately I've been throwing out numbers like '10 years' and feeling surprised that my exaggerations are really not exaggerations after all.

Example 1:

Aggie: You used to run marathons, okay.
Me: That was like 10 years ago.

And it really was! I was, what, 14?

Example 2:

Jaydon: Wow, you played piano till Grade 8? Why didn't you become a piano teacher?
Me: That was like 10 years ago, I can't play for nuts now.

Yup, that too was a decade ago.

It's actually kinda fun.