The Burbs

When I moved to the city back in Feb '03, it was a point in my life that I just needed a change. At that time, I was getting to be pretty anti-burbs and I was too excited to live in the city to think that I might even miss some things that the burbs had to offer.

However, last night I had a little revelation. I was driving to my parent's house to pick up some protein I ordered from www.allthewhey.com (this place is great btw), and right before I got to the entrance of our subdivision, something hit me.....just a quick flashback or something of that nature, but it was pretty cool. As I rode down the little Frontage rd. that leads to their house, I passed the field that is followed by the lake in the backyard. Something just hit me, maybe it was the humidity and the scent of the cleaner suburban air, who knows what it was. Regardless of that, I just let that feeling come over me and it brought me back to all of those late summer nights and all the stupid shit I used to do when I had the summer off........not trying to dwell on the past, but that was a pretty easy time of life. I guess its just that maybe I was able to capture a moment in my mind, and it's so easy to pull that memory out and atleast bask in the short memory of who I was then and what I thought my future held. I know that someone out there that is reading this has the perfect comeback, she's saying "You need to stop looking at the past, Dan." Well ya know what? The past makes us who we are today; this isn't a question of living in the past, rather it is a subtle reminder of how much life can change and how we all think that there is always going to be something better out there for us. Holla at ya'boy!