Nostalgia

–noun
1. a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.

I've been longing for happier times for quite some time now. If you follow my blog at all, you know that the past 3 months have been tough for me and my family. Today, during my regularly scheduled perusal of the blogosphere, I ran across an embedded Youtube video of Keith Sweat ft Jackie McGhee singing "Make it Last Forever" circa 1988. Ahhhhh, the good, old days.

Life was SO simple back when that song was in heavy rotation. I was in the 8th grade at Henderson High School. Every time I look back I think about all of the wasted opportunities in my past. Each time I look back, I want to cry over all of the people that I let down. Whenever I think on old times, I want to hop into a time machine and go back to 8th grade and start over. 8th grade was the virtual "fork in the road" moment in my life. This was my chance to shape my destiny, and shape it I did. I got excepted into an amazing school, and all of the accelerated programs and classes within it. Unfortunately for me, being a braniac wasn't good enough anymore. Actual "work" was required to succeed at this school, and I had ZERO experience with actually working.

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As I was typing this post light night, I heard a LOUD scream coming from my son's room. I ran in there and saw my 2 year-old daughter holding her head in her hands and blood on her face! She and her brother were playing even though they were told to go to bed, and she had obviously fallen and hit her forehead on the foot of my son's bed. My husband and I spent the rest of the night tending to her. I'll have to revisit my thoughts on nostalgia another time, hopefully soon.