Sitting with my husband and looking at videos from the 80's and then looking at live videos from today time of the same singers ... some have faired vera vera well... while others (if they are still living)... not so much.
But then it hits me... As a teenager listening to these same songs way back when - did I ever think then what life would be like now? Ummmmm.... HELL NO!!! I lived in the moment, in each and every moment!
I absorbed the music, I reveled in it, I related to it, and I memorized every single lyric to every song that stuck that familiar chord inside me. I taped the music from the radio on a cassette recorder and then played back every single second of it while writing down the words as fast as I could and hoping I got it right... I... LIVED... IN... THE... MOMENT! Never ever thinking of what life would be like 30 years later (I mean, ya know, like back then, 30 was so freaking old! ya know). I was invincable and indestructible and I was never going to be old!!
Looking back, I long for that girl sometimes. The carefree life, the going at a whim and the friends and laughter from those times. The being absolutey in love with THAT singer or THAT teen star (or older star). For me it was the cute blonde from Escape To Witch Mountain. EVERY single time I would see him or that movie my heart would flutter and I would just star at the TV in a drool enduced trance. WOW!!! OR.... the lead singer from A-HA. My closest friends know how lost I would get if any of their songs were playing. I was a 'love sick' girl stuck in another glorious world!
Sigh.... but now, here I am in my forties and while hearing the music, it still brings a smile... but not the heartthroblovesickyearningdreaming smile of then... it makes me smile because I remember what it was like to be younger... full of energie and wonder. Where has she gone??
When I look in the mirror, I know she is there but the woman staring back at me is not the same person. The woman in the mirror is becomming wrinkled and her hair has white hot streaks of 'Nordic blonde' running through it. Her lips are not as full as they once where, and her skin is no longer the smooth dollface color it used to be. She still smiles but her eyes don't carry the same light they used to. Where has she gone???
Every once in a while... I still get a glimps of her... and it makes my heart flutter. And it's in these moments that I walk away from the mirror feeling as young on the outside as my heart is on the inside...
We are all teenagers wondering what the hell happened!
Forever young :)
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