Thursday, January 10, 2008  2:49 PM
Best I ever had
If there were to be a "spinning" section on this post, it would be Vertical Horizon's "Best I Ever Had". I love how songs take you back to a distant memory, which you've all but forgotten except when the familiar tune and lyrics trigger it again like it was just yesterday. I remember every song sung at special moments, fleeting as it may have been. That flood of nostalgia and colourful images being fast-forwarded like on a reel of film: it seemed like a whole different life altogether.
That song brings me back to my sixteen-year-old days, swinging upside down from the metal bars at school with the sun fading beneath the clouds, without a care in the world. We were laughing and shouting every single word without really thinking about what we were singing.
But it's not so bad, you're only the best I ever had.
And as the years went by, there were more songs and more memories that were created and tucked away into that nice storage part of my brain that forgets till provoked. So I'm sitting here now wrapped in my sweater with the rain pouring outside, deadlines for six stories looming in front of me, half-consumed bubble tea keeping me going, and that same song playing in my head. It's a new memory created, with the exact same tune.
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