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.
