2015. The New Year. A time to come up with resolutions, plans for a better year. But I think it is also time to give pause and reflect. Nothing makes me more nostalgic than a Beatles song. I listened to it recently and tears formed in my eyes as memories of the past 12 months, and the past twenty years surfaced to overflowing.
It's amazing how people come and go in your life. They may fill your day to day for months, years or decades and then slowly fade, eventually reduced to a Facebook status update and an old photograph. The memories once vivid and bright become hazy and muted.
Sometimes recalling old friends overwhelms me with sadness. The loss I feel that I no longer hear their voice every day, that I no longer acknowledge their birthday, that I can no longer share the day to day minutia of my life makes me feel lonely.
Life is fluid and if I think about it, each person who has touched me with their friendship, shared their lives with me, laughed with me, cried with me, has left a mark. They have changed me. They have made me who I am. I remember your laugh, your heartache made me softer, your triumphs inspired me, your love touched me. So I thank each and everyone of you. Even though we may no longer share our stories and our lives you will always be a part of my history. I carry you in my dreams when you pop up unexpected exactly as you were ten years ago. I hear you through a song, I recall you when I smell your perfume or when I think of a silly inside joke.
In my life I've loved them all.
Happy New Year. Thank you for being a part of my life!
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
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all
But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though 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 love you more
Though 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 love you more
In my life I love you more
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Really lovely touching words. Thank you. I forgot how well you write! I dare not think too much about the ones left behind in past lives lest get lost in the emotion of it all! Thank you for popping over to Luna the other day. In the next few months I want to put some more energy into my blog, even if just for myself :) Trying to put a couple of difficult years behind me and start celebrating a little more! Plus tune in more to getrealmama :)
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