I can't think of the last time I saw the stars.

I learned in school, about age 7 or 8, that the sun was a star. And ever since then, I was amazed by all of the other stars in the sky. (Figured out immediately that there was other life out there.) 

Similarly while growing up, I would find spiral-shaped fossils in the dirt, and I recognized that these were from millions of years ago. And while traveling by car from Texas to California in the mid-'90s, I thought to myself about the landscape, "This looks like the barren, leftover bottom of the ocean"--- I didn't know at that time that that was exactly what this landscape was millions of years ago: the Western Interior Seaway.

https://www.cretaceousatlas.org/geology/

I know some things, I miss the stars.