Every now and then when my wife has slipped off to bed before me, the music and mood are just right.... (No not that you perverts!) I like to travel back in time. I haven't unravled some mystery of quantum physics. I float back on memories of simpler times when a much younger version of me looked on the world with more innocent eyes.

I remember the first time I fell in love. I mean really looked in to a womans eyes and knew she was different then any other before her or after. I was 16 years old and after 14 years I can still remember standing out in front of the local movie theater (I grew up in a small town in Michigan.) my girlfriend at the time worked there. We were standing by her car. It was a warm summer afternoon. We had been dating for a while and while standing on that curb looking to her eyes I finally had a word for what I was feeling inside.... LOVE. You really only get a few moments like that in life. I dated other girls and I am now married to a very wonderful woman, whom I wouldn't trade for the world, but there will always be a little place in my heart for the girl on the curb who stole my heart for the first time. Like Paul Simon said: "If you took all the girls I knew, When I was single, And brought them all together for one night, I know they’d never match, My sweet imagination, And everything looks worse in black and white"

Whenever I hear a "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or some AC/DC song it takes me back to High School in an instant. Just being stupid with freinds, cars, and music. We used to cruise and since it was pre cell phone days a bunch of us had CB radios (I know uncool, but cell rates were still in the dollars per minute range especially in the sticks in Michigan). Summers were way too short.

Not that I would ever want to go back. My life thus far has been great and I wouldn't trade it for one more night cruising or one more second with the girl on the curb.

Sorry if this post is crazy. I just felt like sharing.

Do you have a girl or boy on the curb? Wanna share?

What takes you back?

-- Jeremy

Although I'm only 20, and probabaly quite a bit behind you in years...I find myself doing what you do a lot. Don't you wish you had made a journal of fun/important memories that you would want to remember forever? I would start now, but I'm a hypocrite and I don't think I could follow through :lol:

I know you wouldn't trade your life for going back for one night. But wouldn't it be totally awesome to go back in time for a little while? Do you ever think, what If you could take your mind now, and go back to "whenever" point in time, and re-do somethings, or just act the same as you were before and enjoy it again.

I'm the guy in the group who does the "remember that time" a lot, I just like reminiscing on the past a lot more then other's that I know. And it's kind of weird, how your brain takes memories and makes them into sort of a story, and the story usually isn't 100% accurate, it ends up being "slightly" in your favor, haha.

Your story though, man is great, I can't wait until I'm happily married with a girl. So I can stop worrying about the girl I'm with being unfaithful on me with someone, because it's happened before and it's hard to shake that feeling, and I always end up getting attracted to the one's that could possibly do something like that again. I just want that family feeling you can always fall back on when thing's get shitty. Or to have a child, So I can have the feeling of raising him/her into something great, passing onto him the thing's I learned throughout life.

Look what you did!:tucool:

Although I'm only 20, and probabaly quite a bit behind you in years...I find myself doing what you do a lot. Don't you wish you had made a journal of fun/important memories that you would want to remember forever? I would start now, but I'm a hypocrite and I don't think I could follow through :lol:

I definately wish I would of kept a journal and took more pictures back in those days.

I know you wouldn't trade your life for going back for one night. But wouldn't it be totally awesome to go back in time for a little while? Do you ever think, what If you could take your mind now, and go back to "whenever" point in time, and re-do somethings, or just act the same as you were before and enjoy it again.

It would be cool to go back and change some things, but did you ever see that movie "The Butterfly Effect"?

I'm the guy in the group who does the "remember that time" a lot, I just like reminiscing on the past a lot more then other's that I know. And it's kind of weird, how your brain takes memories and makes them into sort of a story, and the story usually isn't 100% accurate, it ends up being "slightly" in your favor, haha.

Well when my group of friends gets together we all do a lot of "remember that time" especially over beers. Those are all college friends.. I don't really keep in touch with any high school friends.

Your story though, man is great, I can't wait until I'm happily married with a girl. So I can stop worrying about the girl I'm with being unfaithful on me with someone, because it's happened before and it's hard to shake that feeling, and I always end up getting attracted to the one's that could possibly do something like that again. I just want that family feeling you can always fall back on when thing's get shitty. Or to have a child, So I can have the feeling of raising him/her into something great, passing onto him the thing's I learned throughout life.

Look what you did!:tucool:

Take your time you will find someone. I didn't get married till I was 29.

-- Jeremy

I do that alot....keeps me young, although i like to stay in the present moment for the most part.

When jogging I tend to think of childhood memories (my path takes me past my old elementary school) and the park I jog in is the park I grew up playing in.

Actually, after all these years , between moving away and such, I ended up living in the same neighborhood I grew up in.

They were very good times and it's nice to reflect on those positive moments in this crazy world of ours:)

When I jog I can just put it on cruise control and drift off into a state like that, running becomes effortless then, and doing so makes the memories more vivid because you're at an elevated state exercising. Most of the stuff that goes through my head are melancholic memories of times I wish I had. What if's, what if's what if's..

:bang:

When I jog I can just put it on cruise control and drift off into a state like that, running becomes effortless then, and doing so makes the memories more vivid because you're at an elevated state exercising. Most of the stuff that goes through my head are melancholic memories of times I wish I had. What if's, what if's what if's..

:bang:


That's one of the things why I love to run :tucool: