Just Sayin

  I was in the Walmart parking lot and heard this music coming from an Explorer SUV. The left side door was open, and a older woman, with platinum blond hair, and a smoke dangling from her mouth was fiddling with something in the front seat. I immediately identified her as as a Gen X, based solely on her look, and her choice of music. She was blaring, "In the Dark," by Billy Squier. It led my driftin memory memory back to the early 1980's in Yuma. When that song, was blaring in the Burger King parking lot on 4th Ave, the Crescent Center parking lot across the street, and countless party's all over town and the county. For a moment I was in 1981, 17 and free of the shackles of adulthood, for another year at least. A freedom not again realized until retirement. My memories both endless, and fleeting, brought back with a piece of music when I least expected it. Just rememberin.

  I thought that I had time, and then woke up one day, and didn't. It was then that I came to the realization that I was closer to the end of this deal, than the beginning. Old age snuck up on me when I wasn't lookin. I lived life, fast and on my terms because I wanted no regrets, but it didn't work out that way. Regret is written on my face like a silent truth, and a failed fools folly.

Man is the duality of the human existence. He is both evil, and good, are all men at sometime or another. Either in action, or thought.