Wasn't I Just 15?
When a song transports you back in time.
“I’m Going to Run to You,” the singer croons on my small radio.
Suddenly, I’m 15 and I’m waking up in a sleepy haze. It is the last day of school before Christmas break. Soon our family will be heading to Florida for vacation. I’m so young and my life is ahead of me.
My family is all under one roof and sleeping as I get ready for the day. All of us here in this cozy cocoon.
The song keeps playing as I wake up one day so many years later. I long to be transported back to that time. I want to grasp on to those micro moments, but they fade as morning becomes a new day.
I am a mom now and our teenage son is getting ready for school I don’t need to get up but I do anyway. If it’s only my presence that is needed on this dark winter morning.
Someday I will long for this moment and these quiet mornings, that will be distant memories. What song it will be that transports me back to today?
Jumping back in time is nice to do if it is only in your mind. My dreams, sometimes, will shoot me to my past but then I wake up with a smile and sit up in bed and remember where all my aches and pains came from.
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