No. Not really, but it felt like it. Ever dig out those old cd's or albums you're afraid to admit you really have?
I did that yesterday and drove home to Billy Joel. Not high on the cool list these days, he nonetheless had quite a little hit collection 'back in the day'. Something about Tell Her About It and Only the Good Die Young and The Piano Man is comforting. He's like my comfort food. I can turn on the cd and be whisked away back to 1986 or 1987 and remember where and how I was.
Get this: I'm so old that when I went to college no one had any computers. NO ONE HAD A PC in their dorm room. Hardly no one. I mean, hell, I had an old run on dos only machine that was pretty much only used for cheesy dos games like Family Feud and Wheel of Fortune. I mean, they didn't have graphics people! But anyway, when I read some of these diaries around here with people in college everyone has their computer in their room with their AIM's turned on to take messages. Eek. I remember when people would you know, actually get up and walk to you door and leave a note, like you know, with paper. Or they would call your extension. Which if you didn't have a machine you wouldn't get anyway. No one had cell phones either (definitely something that should of stayed that way, you ask me) so no text messaging or anything!
Man. I feel like a grandma.
Anyway, my point is.. I sort of lost it, but sometimes there are those things you can drag out to remind you of differnt times. And sometimes that's good to get lost inside a memory. It helps relive stress in a way. Check your mind off and travel back a decade or so.
Lord knows I never thought I'd be where I am today, right now, back then. Life has a way of happening when you're busy making other plans, this has always been true.
But why do I have to feel so old?!