I’d been looking for this version of this song online for a while….you see, when you don’t bring any cd’s with you and don’t have the money to buy them again, this is what you’re reduced to.
I love this song…it always reminds me of camping over Spring Break in my freshman year of college. I came back home and went with my friends Corie, Colleen, my then-boyfriend, and a couple other tag alongs. I remember sitting at the camp site with Corie and Colleen, drinking some crazy mixed drink that tasted like high-c gone wrong but definitely did the trick. I miss times like that….with my girlfriends, before life got complicated.
Now we’re all scattered every which way and it’s like, even when we are together again, we can’t connect anymore..Something got lost. It was one of the last really kid-ish things that I guess we’ll all get to do together….
I’ve been trying to figure out the key moments when I knew it really hit me that I was growing/grown up…
When I was 15 and my friend was going off to war in Iraq…when I realized that it wasn’t our parents or our parent’s parents doing the fighting anymore…that he could die.
When Adam’s dad died…
When Sarah died…
When my ex-boyfriend started to really do drugs and then watching him withdraw.
Him living with me for weeks….and the break up afterwards.
Adam’s wedding.
Maggie’s wedding.
Maggie’s baby being born.
My sister spending Thanksgiving with her boyfriend’s family.
Going to Glasgow…and being completely alone in a foreign city.
Going to the doctor by myself.
hmmmmm…….I really enjoy life…I just don’t know how I grew up so quickly.
