again

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so when i was in the 8th grade, i had a girlfriend who was MUCH older than i. (She was 15!) after a few months, she was all about moving on to the cool “sophomore” kids. at the time, i thought this was the cruelest, most painful thing life could ever bring. about that time, the janet jackson song “again” came out and i can remember buying this song on a “cassette single” for $1.99 at Sam Goody and playing it over and over.

wow.

i wonder if in 20 years my current “first-world problems” will seem just as trivial. i’m betting they will and that’s why i’m so fuck glad to be an aware, awake and conscious grown-up.

nothing beats the waking life.

here’s your blast to 8th grade courtesy of janet jackson…even to this day i can barely look at myself in the mirror.

while this is a wickedly embarrassing post, it’s important that you know that i’m all about transparency here at 1LS. we take the good with the bad…this post = the bad.

p.s. also this is why i’m going to be a good dad.

p.p.s soon after this time in my life, i found my dad’s vinyl copy of “sgt pepper’s” and my love affair w/ top 40′s was over.

  • http://supertiff.com supertiff

    my littlest sister has been going through a similar thing: “i can’t go back to school! i can’t! this is the worst thing that could ever happen!”

    and, before i could catch myself, i actually said: “no, honey. it’s going to get much worse than this.”

    but, seriously. i’d give anything to have been right about thinking that my first heartbreak was going to be the worst thing i could ever feel.

  • http://yesisaworld.com Yes Is A World

    I totally have memories about “Again” directed at this one kid from middle school. He LOVED the song, which seemed out of character for him, so now every time I hear it, I think of him. Not that I hear it often.

    And yeah, 1st heartbreaks are rough, but damn do things ever get rougher.