Wassup, my peeps???
I have found a song that needs to be addressed. I have found a post from an artist who mashed up all the best BASS action songs from my early 20s, and now I wish I could find the whole mix. Brings me back to a time when dancing in a smoke-filled bar, not drinking, and having the best time ever.
Am I old enough to consider this music vintage compared to the current generation? We've got some Snoop on it, Kanye when he was actually good, USHER and a whole load of master DJ tracks. Aaaah, Freddy's how I miss dancing all night, 7 days a week, having VIP access and being the one to drive all my friends crazy because I was sober, and driving their drunk asses home.
Curbs will jump up on you, and I will tell you not to get your blood on the leather seats of my Pontiac GTP. Cranking the bass lines up, while your besties billet stick his head out the moon roof, only to be hit in the head with a June big!!!! I am dying of laughter just thinking about it.
Driving to a local pizza place to grab a poutine at 3am, and stuffing a pizza down your throat. Life seemed simple then. I would go to bed at 4 in the morning, wake up at 7am to go to work, and then back at the club around 10pm. Remember when we had energy to spare, remember when we had a place to go to dance out our frustrations, ignoring the hectic times we had during the day. There are no safe outlets anymore. This generation of tech and bad music will never understand that we never stayed home.
I had my gallbladder removed, and still went to the bar the next night, showing off my laparoscopic marks as though they were trophies. Dancing on gogo boxes, fist pumping with the DJ in the booth. The music was so loud that when you went outside to go home, it was deafening. Clothes and hair reeking of cigarette smoke that filled the air, turning the haze in the room from the fog machine a grey-blue colour.
Watching girls having fun, being able to reject the guys without being assaulted because they said no, I am with my girls. Sure, they would get angry, but the bouncers took really good care to ensure the women in the bar were safe. This was a time when girls could hang out with one another without being compared to each other.
Times have changed! I wouldn't go to the club now even if you paid me. Everything is scary. People have too much time on their hands. I don't know if I just turned a blind eye to what was happening in the club, but I was there often enough to never see it. Sure, there were fights, sure, there were creepy ass men there, that's why we ignored them.
Maybe it's because my group was surrounded by young men who lived to fight, on 4mm pieces of metal that can cut your carotid artery. Maybe that's why I felt safe.
I lived my 20s like I was supposed to, CF and all. I enjoyed being with my friends, going to the hockey games every weekend and each week. I was a photographer for the team, and I was on the training staff. It's a different world now, I don't go to places cause I am scared of catching something. I don't socialize much because I am afraid of catching something. I don't, because I am compromised, I am ... well, I AM OLD in my CF life, and I am grateful and humbled to be here and advocating for my friends with CF.
I GOT YOU! Live through me, don't copy me!
Unless it's getting into sports, then please copy me!!! haha
Just wanted to share that I was a little reckless. Be a little reckless, you only get to do it once. But don't be stupid about it.
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