Now that we are a few months into the year 2025, I have been seeing people on social media point out similarities between the first couple of months of 2025 and 2020. Events such as the California wildfires in both years and the startling information of a new respiratory virus in China. My personal favorite, however, has to be that both 2020 and 2025 started on a Wednesday, leading our calendars to spell out “WTF” for the first few days. Can you get a worse omen than that?
The parallels to just five years ago had me wondering if there are any similarities between 2025 and another year. 2015 came to mind simply because it was just ten years ago. I would also say that 2015 is one of the first years that I really remember in detail. Below, I am going to remind you of a few trends and historical events that happened in 2015.
Let’s start with some world events, German flight 9525, Hurricane Sandy, and the 2025 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
German Flight 9525 was a fatal crash of an Airbus a320 in the Alps. The flight was from an airline named Germanwings. There were no survivors. The crash was caused intentionally by the pilot who had been struggling with mental health. While this is not the same, it reminded me of the January 30, 2025, DC collision where an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet crashed into a UH-60 helicopter.
While Hurricane Sandy is not the worst hurricane or even the worst one the United States has experienced, it is one of the most destructive and remembered ones the US has experienced. While in 2025 we have not experienced a hurricane yet, scientists are predicting that there will be three major storms this year.
Even though there are no Olympic games this year, people are still talking about the ones from this summer and how Los Angeles will be hosting again in 2028, similar to the games hosted in 2015.
What students are most likely to remember from 2015, would be the trends. Some of the clothing trends I still see in our school on a daily basis such as athleisure and white sneakers. Some trends we have let go of are long vests and furry keychains.
The most notable trend that I personally remember from 2015 is the infamous dab, a dance move that involves bringing a bent arm to your face and extending your other arm straight to the side. While dabbing didn’t end in 2015, it definitely seems out of date now.
I was surprised to see that not much has changed in the last five and ten years. Another thing that amazed me was how much I was able to remember from 2015. As a high school student I am now more aware of the world than when I was in elementary or middle school. I am curious to learn what I will remember from 2025.
