Moodle

Gosh - today I realized something. I’m old.

Ok, not old like what most people consider old, but old enough when I turned on my Sansa MP3 player and my favorite Pearl Jam CD from my youth came on I thought to myself “wow - how’d I ever listen to this”? Then, “God Bless my parents for having to put up with this, my poor Dad”! I can vividly remember him complaining during my Pearl Jam days about how it wasn’t music, it was screaming. I thought he was crazy. Now I can see it was I who was nuts! LOL

I still like it, at least most of it. But it is so different listening to it now. Part of me is having flashbacks to my friends and high school drama’s, and another part of me is trying to keep from getting a headache. It’s amazing what aging does to us. I’m only 31, I still consider myself a “baby” in many ways. When it comes to life experience I think I am far older than what the biological clock says, but when I sit around with my friends and we get to talking about childhood idols, TV, cars, etc I feel like I should still be in diapers. LOL

Listening to this music reminds me of the days where my biggest problems were what to wear and which boy I liked. Sadly, my son is almost at that very age. It scares me. What will he listen to when he is older and be reminded of his youth? Fergie? Coldplay? Justin Timberlake? What will his memories be? Will they be fond and happy? I suppose only time will tell.

When he gets to that point, what memories will those songs invoke for me? After all, I still happily listen to top 40 music myself. Will I remember the stress of parenting a tween? Will hearing Chamillionaire’s Ridin still remind me of my amazing 10 year anniversary??? I sure hope so - music just has a way of making you think back to memories you otherwise might forget. I hope that continues throughout my lifetime, and that of my children.

So - pull out an old CD. Pop it in, and see if you get the same trip down memory lane that I did. You might learn something new about yourself!