The narrator is thinking of their first kid .The narrator is thinking of memories of being young .The narrator is thinking of meeting their love .The narrator is thinking of their first job .
Why would the narrator being so nostalgic ?
And of course , it is gratifying to realise that , even all those years ago , one had better taste than one gives oneself credit for.----------------Speaking of snippets of memory , something else . I have a very bad memory , and so I was trying to rack my brains for my happiest memory yet . To my surprise , I found it . When I was little , we had these two huge army trunks on our terrace .