jake5270's blog post - A Passing Memory

I heard this last night on the drive home from work... boy, did it take me back.

After I split up with the love of my life (two weeks before we were to marry), I can still remember how rough it was, and I remember sitting in a bar thinking the same things they talk about in the song: not why we broke up or whose fault it was, but just how lonely I was, how much I missed being with her, wanting to touch her and make things right again. God, I wanted to call her and hear her voice. Knowing that this time there was no going back is what hurt me to my core.

A lot of years have passed since that time. You learn how to numb the pain and accept what neither of you wanted to happen, but HAD to happen between you. You learn how to move on and live your life... even if there's a hole in your soul that can never be filled. 36 years. A lot of women since then. None have come close to making me as happy as I was for just five minutes with her. I'll always think of her from time to time, remembering what we once shared, and how truly happy I once was.

There are times even now when I still want to make that call so much I can't help but cry.

I'm all right. Life goes on. I'm reletively happy.

No worries... just a memory, that's all.


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