Feeling Nostalgic Today

[FAX]

Maybe it's the weather. Certainly, an overcast sky and a constant, cool drizzle tends to keep your eyes focused down rather than upward. Or, maybe it's the hospital stay. A not-so-subtle acknowledgement that demon age has my number.

Whatever it is, I find my mind wandering back into the past ... thinking mainly of relationships gone by and those forks in the road where the choices I made then are like exponents in an equation that resulted in this life ... here ... now. An algorithm where "x" could have been anything and I filled in the blanks like an experiment - hoping, I suppose, that the formula would all make sense in the end.

I'm reminded how people say that time is relentless. That much is surely obvious. But, it's far more severe and strange than that. From our first moment, we step blindly into the vast, roiling river of time. It takes us forward with it ... tumbling and struggling and gasping for breath. But parts of us are left behind along the way. Like imprints on the shore. Places we camped. People we knew. Today, for some reason, time is tugging at those "left behind" parts as well. Like a powerful tide that hasn't yet captured its due. As if it's seeking a bitter agreement from me ... an admission that I was ever and always helpless in the unyielding pull. Anybody else ever feel like that?

FAX

Disclaimers: Sorry if re-post.

[bogey]

yes

[Easy 6]

I feel more & more like that every single day Mr. FAX, even though i hate the song...we truly are "Dust in the Wind".

A beautifully worded piece Sir.

[seclark]

sounds like you need to take a dump.
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[teedubya]

I sometimes recollect my thoughts and do some much needed analysis. I normally come the conclusion that if I hadn't of made those decisions, then I wouldnt have my wonderful wife and my 2 wonderful kids.

I would have some other wonderful wife, maybe even more wonderful, and 2 other kids... which would have been mine, thus wonderful.

But, I prefer the ones I have. Although, I sometimes wish I had taken the fork in the road, that would allow me to have a harem of foreign beauties.

[bogey]

This morning I was reflecting on my brother. Jenny mentioned in a thread that she missed her brother. This stuck in my mind and last night I dreamed about the brother I lost. In my dream, he reminded me of the time he saved my life from drowning. This then triggered memories of my youth. Most of my memories are fond, some not so much, but all of them had a lasting impression and were part of making me who I am today, for better or for worse.

[blueballs]

Alien abductions have become obsolete
they are now in hospitals across the world
I hope Nastalic was atleast cute

[FAX]

Alien abductions have become obsolete
they are now in hospitals across the world
I hope Nastalic was atleast cute

LMAO

Damn, Mr. blueballs. Good one.

Normally, I view your posts as if they were dry chicken bones poured from a goat-scrotum bag onto the table. If I stare at them long enough, I can divine some strange meaning. In this case, however, I have no freaking idea what you're talking about.

FAX

[Bob Dole]

It must be something in the air.

Earlier today, Bob Dole thought about last Tuesday.

[2112]

LMAO

Damn, Mr. blueballs. Good one.

Normally, I view your posts as if they were dry chicken bones poured from a goat-scrotum bag onto the table. If I stare at them long enough, I can divine some strange meaning. In this case, however, I have no freaking idea what you're talking about.

FAX

ROFL

[Dave Lane]

yep

[Stewie]

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

[cdcox]

I was loud and a little sad
She was visiting from atlanta, georgia
She had come to spend the summer with her dad
I thought she was very pretty
We would kiss and hold hands
Every night by the football field
Her body was tan
From the afternoons by the public swimming pool

Sweet evening breeze
Blows around my thoughts and memories
As I lie here today
And drink my tea
I can still see
Sweet evening breeze

I saw her in a coffee shop
In a big hotel down in austin, texas
She had cut her long hair off
And replaced it with
Blue eyes of sadness
Still acted like we were kids
And she told me that she had to marry
And she asked me if I did
Still remember

Sweet evening breeze
Blows around my thoughts and memories
As I lie here today
And drink my tea
I can still see
Sweet evening breeze

How redundant the future can be
These days of old are very, very
Ridiculous for me to see
When I think about the real gone stories
And how time holds the winning hand
I can tell by the lines on our faces
And the young cant understand
That they look at me
When they look at themselves

Oh, sweet evening breeze
Blows around my thoughts and memories
As I lie here today
And drink my tea
I can still see
Sweet evening breeze

[Buehler445]

I sometimes recollect my thoughts and do some much needed analysis. I normally come the conclusion that if I hadn't of made those decisions, then I wouldnt have my wonderful wife and my 2 wonderful kids.

I would have some other wonderful wife, maybe even more wonderful, and 2 other kids... which would have been mine, thus wonderful.

But, I prefer the ones I have. Although, I sometimes wish I had taken the fork in the road, that would allow me to have a harem of foreign beauties.

Yeah Ari, it happens to me sometimes too minus the 2 kids. I start thinking of people that I wonder what it would be like if it had worked out. I feel terrible about it because I love my girl, but the thoughts randomly pop in my head sometimes.

[Skip Towne]

FAX is obviously into the Lortabs again. I suspect he is contemplating his navel about now.

[Friendo]

just be glad you're not like this woman Mr. Fax

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4813052&page=1

featured on 20/20 tonight--a bit unsettling as I can recall posts from 3 years ago on here:shake:

[FAX]

FAX is obviously into the Lortabs again. I suspect he is contemplating his navel about now.

Your cold hearted insults will not deter me, Mr. Skip Towne. I shall continue unabated and unbowed in this quest to understand the curse under which we humans labor. This curse of time which you, of all people, should know so well.

FAX

[el borracho]

It must be something in the air.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5H7Kmxz9BXU

[RJ]

Life is short. I never realized that until recently. Twenty years ago I wished I had more money. Now I just wish I had more time.

[teedubya]

This is teh official song of this thread.

There are places I remember all my life,
Though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain.
All these places have their moments
Of lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I loved them all.

And with all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these mem'ries lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them.
In my life I loved you more.

And I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them.
In my life I loved you more
In my life I loved you more

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[RadeAM2]

I don't understand.

[blueballs]

ROFL

Go give yourself an enema with some of Sedated's bong water
that while while your head is up your ass it will have something to do

[KcMizzou]

Life is short. I never realized that until recently. Twenty years ago I wished I had more money. Now I just wish I had more time.That'll make ya think.