Nostalgia.

So, driving around town, which I seem to do very little of anymore, I turn up the music, roll the windows down, and I will automatically fall into a trance. Even when I'm riding with other people, I do this. It doesn't matter what song comes on the radio, it makes me fall right into a reminiscent moment. I swear, I can listen to anything under the sun, and somehow the lyrics make me think of something that makes me think of something else, and before you know it, I'm deep into the past. So, I've decided I'm going to share some of these with you, because I mean, I love stories, so I'm going to assume you do too.

Tonight, on the way home from a co-worker's house, I heard Travis Tritt's "Great Day to be Alive." Now, normally, I only listed to country like 20% of the time, and they don't usually spark a memory in me, but this song came out when I was a sophomore in high school. I absolutely HATED my small, Christian, private school with a passion, and I still to this day, have nightmares about my parents making me go back after allowing me to leave for public school. Anyway, I went to school with a bunch of country boys. I mean, hunting on the weekends, bring your turkey call to class, let's see who has a more redneck truck type country boys. And to this day, I can't tell you why because it wasn't looks (pubescent boys? eek), it wasn't personality, and it certainly wasn't common interest, but I had a crush on almost every single one of them. (I think there were 5 boys in my class, not dozens.) One boy in particular would come to Algebra class everyday, singing this song, especially the line about growing a "fu-man-chu" and every single day, this song would be stuck in my head for hours. I still, to this day, some 7 years later, cringe when I hear that song.