I’ve come to realize I still have more questions than answers
The future feels just the same as it did ten years ago when my now was my future then
Friends are more often thought about than visited
when later today turns into tomorrow and tomorrow turns into this weekend and then next weekend once a month whenever you can
because time pushes us all into this strange thing called Life
and it’s full of all kinds of ******* designed to rob you of your money your sanity your time
but don’t let this discourage you from greeting tomorrow with open arms
and a head full of more questions than answers
The magic doesn’t seem to happen as often, but on the days it does
You have a good day at work, you pay all the monthly bills on time, your schedule syncs with an old college friend and you meet for coffee, or street tacos from a local food trailer, or you shoot pool and whiskey at a dive bar early Saturday evening
and it feels like the old times again, and you learn the things you did were your first stumblings into adulthood and even though they sometimes change the way you walk forever, it’s those times you discover again when you start your third game and the songs you queued on the jukebox start playing and now that you can enjoy the taste of good whiskey more than the quantity of well, and all the loose fragments of the memories we carry every day, left open on the table in a journal with more strikeout lines than unmolested phrases all become complete with each corner pocket called shot, each memory recalled and retold with language alluding Greek Epics and Shakespearean Tragedies,
It all starts to make more sense in ways and stops making sense in others,
and the future is the same as it always was
some things you can change, some people you can keep some days turn into weeks, months, and years trying to make sense of what’s coming, of what’s gone, of just what, exactly, we have now.