sounds and memories.....

I've been laid up for the past 3 days. In bed with a bad back. Arrrrg ! When I was young and dumb I fell down two flights of stairs after a hardcore night of binge drinking. I don't remember that night but it haunts me 19 years later. In the last three days I've had it with TV, movies , the internet and books. Its too much to keep me entertained , too much input. I did have plenty of time to stop and think. Some things were good and some things were bad. I guess the biggest thing that I thought about was how I miss my friends. We all grew up together, whether it was when we were kids or as young adults we grew together. As we grew up we grew apart. Some of us grew in to our rolls as parents and business owners or at least productive workers. That was by choice and some were thrown in to our rolls we have today. I make an effort to contact my friends by phone or a simple text message. It's funny on how many messages you leave before you stop leaving them. The more ways you have to connect to a person the less you actually do talk to a friend. In time you go about your routine and focus on you. You do have to stop and thing on how many things and who influenced you to become you. In order of importance of bits and pieces of who you are (for most people) ; parents, family, teachers and friends. For me friends usually sit higher in that chain. They really let me be me. I wish all of them the best.
Back to my original thought about dead time to fill. I found some cd's a very special friend of mine made for me. She wanted me to listen to what she was listening in her life at that time. She knew that much of the artists that she was in to I had no interest in. For her I stopped my own music and popped in her audio notes. .... today they made me smile and pause and think about her. In those songs I could hear her crying, laughing, yearning and loving. Out of my friends that are too busy for me I miss her the most. So to you in what ever you are doing and where ever you are going.... Here is a little song from me to you. ** I hope it made you smile. You always looked good in a smile.