So as grad school approaches, I find myself reverting to old habits. As I type, I’m online having an 1980s music festival, compliments of YouTube. And I mean 80s pop! I’m even throwing in a little 70s. It just struck me that this is pretty much what I did the entire summer before coming to Delaware in 1990. Only back then, the music 
was still pretty new, and I was listening on some cheap stereo. Now all the music is online as nostalgia.
So as I start the last bit of my “path to adulthood” education, the items of my youth are now nostalgia. I’m halfway to the grave and, I’m just now beginning to finish up the prep-work to life! What happened?
It seems like yesterday that I was singing along to 94TYX out of Jackson, Mississippi, or picking up the random radio station out of New Orleans. Who even listens to radio anymore at home? Worse yet, I was still playing records! Sure I had tapes, but those worthless pieces of junk were trouble from the start! Now I own no tapes and never play the records, and I’m getting ready to digitize my entire CD collection so they can be boxed up and stored.
Again, what happened? Everything has been rocket-speed for the last 20 years, and it seems like I’m in a Radio-flyer wagon, moseying along. But frankly, who cares.
Once I realized that “getting there” was just as important as the destination, time stopped mattering. I enjoy every day. Sure I could have a better job. 🙂 Sure I could have more money? But hell, we could all die tomorrow! I stopped being unhappy and miserable long, long ago.
I’ll just keep jamming to the 80s and 70s every now and them, and I’ll go to school as long as I damn-well please. And nobody has to pull the wagon!
yeah, this one is over a year old but i’m on a roll here..haha..
i suppose we are all on our ‘path to adulthood’ but i know damn well that you, as well as i, don’t ever want to reach that point.
may we have dreams about radio flyers forever.