A walk down a foggy memory lane.

I haven't sat down and listened to music in a very very long time. Not that I don't listen to music at all anymore, nothing like that. Maybe I'll pause and listen to a song my wife is playing sometimes...sometimes I'll let the youtube autoplay do it's thing while I am doing something else. But I haven't really sat down and just listened to a song for a long long time, and I haven't really wanted to either.

As I was browsing through football news on youtube a song popped up on the side. It was such a familiar name and I knew I had listened to that song a thousand times if not a million! And yet I could recall neither its tune nor its lyrics. It has been that long! And from the name of the artist I knew this was not the my typical choice of music - but I still knew it was a song I used to enjoy in my younger days. But I haven't enjoyed music like that in the recent past...do I dare..?

My fingers slowly pointed the cursor over the thumbnail and clicked, not knowing what to expect as I really couldn't recall anything from that song. But as soon as the the first bit of tune started to play, memories flowed back in an instant! I remembered it all as the best days of our lives flashed right in front of my eyes. Those were indeed the days...

It was very surprising that this was not a song from my all time favorite band Artcell, or Shironamhin or Aurthohin or Black or...the list goes on. It was just a very simple, slow going song. But somehow it struck all the right chords in our lives when we were foolish teens. I remembered listening to this song on repeat as we went on long drives with my siblings, or my best friends.

I guess the bottom-line is we don't really need to do something extraordinary to be remembered. Sometimes it's the simplest acts of kindness. Sometimes a few words to touch the heart. Sometimes just a shoulder to lean on after a difficult day...