22 years ago, I was 18

So, today I’ve been thinkin a lot about the years that I’ve managed to stash away in my litle backpack in the section I label ‘Life Experiences,’ and I wonder to myself what it will be like in 20 more years.  Can I manage to keep up with the pace that technology, humanity, and culture push forward in a never ending race towards an end that has no finish line.  Wow, some really crazy thoughts to be honest.  I consider my mother, a child of 19 when she had her only child with a man who must have been so confused he had no idea how to handle situations.  Gay at a pentecostal bible college on a course to be a pastor for a pentecostal church.  Are you kidding me?  For most who have never attending a pentecostal church much less been rased in one, they have no clue the implications that those circumstances would entail.  Wow.  How things have changed.

But the changes with culture are only the small changes.  Truly as a society we are still stuck, still mired in a struggle of conservative versus liberal, black versus brown ,versus yellow, versus white.  We have made many strides as a society, but how much further is there yet to travel when you really stop and think about it.  What I really am impressed by is technology.  Holy ef’n shit people, there are many out there like myself who have had a computer since they were in the 8th grade and are 40 years old.  Think about communication back then when you were booting up your apple ][+ up wondering if you could finish that list of chores before your asshole father came home?  OMG, think about your favorite shows way back in the day?  Were you a trekkie like me?  Pick up your cel phone and call your kid, now when he answers the phone say this, "Beam me up Scotty!," and what will they say?  What? LOL for real... You know what I'm talking bout.  Even the kids do at this point.  Cel phones are sci fi for me but gd ain’t they the shit?

So anyways blah blah blah, what even is bringing this all up?  Well yesterday evening, a friend of mine from high school came up this way to Boston and we both spent a couple of hours out of our lives reliving the past 22 years.  We spoke open about things like this, about how the nation is, the liberals and conservatives, religious beliefs or lack of, and just a collection of experiences that we’ve both managed to work our ways through while trudging along throughout life’s many journeys.  I did most of the talking it seemed as I’ve been many places and seen many things, but his journeys were no less exciting and amazing to hear about.  Remind me never to take a white water rafting trip in Jamaca mon!  But just the changes in our worlds that we’ve lived through were what left the biggest impression for us both I think.  When we went our seperate ways, a handshake was shared and the push to do it again sometimes.  Oh, of course who knows when this chance will arise again but I think next time instead of wondering if we’ll ever see anyone from our past we might think more along the lines of when will we meet someone from our past.

Anyways, I’ve really kind of gone astray in this meandering journey of an entry.  I really just want to shed light upon the past, the present, and the future.  I think that we live in the most exciting of times that history has ever had.  I think there are those that are wrong, and those that are right.  I believe that both of these groups have their own rights and wrongs and that if only they could come together, perhaps we’d live in a better world.

To George,

Hey man, it was truly great seeing you.  I hope that we can do it again some day and I hope that when we’re 60 we’re the coolest ef’n 60 year olds that a 18 year old just graduating Blue Raider has ever seen!
Take care!

–Tommy

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