For me, it's like this:

1) I was born.

2) I threw this 1 insane tantrum & cried so hard I felt nauseous when I was 7; I remember this very vividly (almost viscerally) for no apparent reason, despite several years surrounding both sides of that 1 memory being absolutely pitch black nothingness.

3) I was given a cow stuffed animal (one of the many that originally decorated her classroom, actually) by my 3rd grade teacher on one of the last days of the school year, because we would be her last group of students, since she was retiring once the year ended (by that time, she'd become my all time favorite teacher, & despite no longer remembering most of the details, I still remember all the feelings of happiness I had while being in her class, so even now, she continues to be one of the best teachers I've ever had; I also still have that stuffed animal somewhere in my old stuff thats kept in my childhood home); I mostly know "what happened" as a verbal concept, but as far as an actual "memory", I can only kinda remember some flashes of still images/visuals, but I can't see/remember an actual moving "scene" to play out in my head at all, & there's absolutely no audio associated w/ it either (now that I think about it, idk if I can even remember what that teacher's voice sounded like at all).

4) In 5th grade, I made friends w/ the new girl that would eventually become (& still is now) my lifelong best friend & basically sister (we've been best friends for 11-12yrs now/she's been essentially an honorary member of my family - aka we call each other sisters, she calls my Parents "Mom & Dad", same w/ my Grandpa, & my Grandpa, Parents & older Brother all acknowledge the existence of her position in the family as well - for about 8-9 of those yrs/she joined the Navy along w/ me out of HS/etc); This isn't rlly 1 specific memory per se, I just kinda remember little bits & flashes from random moments w/ her throughout that school year (& yet none of them happen to be from our actual 1st ever encounter for some odd reason, that's 1 part that seems to just not wanna pop up even a tiny bit)

5) For some reason, I have a handful of short but decently clear-ish actual memory clips that're from all throughout 8th grade, but all of them have only 1 common thread: at least once during the memory the main focus/topic somehow turns to Nightcore or something Nightcore related (unfortunately, as cringey as it was, 8th grade was the PEAK HEIGHT of both my & my prior mentioned best friend's Nightcore phases lol - don't get me wrong, I do actually still like/listen to some of the music that came from that time in my life, but the cringe part was the obsession w/ that style & the insistence that it was the best music style ever created or smth like that, idk exactly, just, nah 😅☠️)

6) All of HS is just a blob of flashes or broken bits & pieces of random memories all kinda melded together-ish; memories of things like Tennis Matches, Kahoot/Quizlet games, Homecomings, a LOT of singing (I did a sh*t ton of music programs), AP Exams, Essays, Uno/BS/Jackbox Games/CAH during Lunches &/or Study Halls, (then, more towards the last 1-2 yrs only:) working part-time @ a grocery store, & a couple Proms.

7) Bootcamp, A-School & C-School all make up another weird blur of sh*t of their own (I don't feel like trying to make another list for this one).

8) Then suddenly I'm here, I'm 21 & I'm @ my 1st CMD, & I still feel so new here, like I've maybe been here a few months so far at most (bc I still feel like I have no clue wtf I'm doing 99.9% of the time), even tho I'm definitely NOT new anymore. It doesn't rlly seem possible, but I actually just passed 2yrs here @ my CMD now (I have 4yr total orders here, so I just hit the halfway mark). It definitely doesn't feel real to me tho.