Random Memory #1



To everyone that survived with me (you all know who you are).

 I remember a group of dumb-ass 17 year olds, beers in hand, standing around a fire in the middle of nowhere on a cold autumn Saturday night. Couples cuddle close, some just for that evening. We talk about nothing and laugh good laughs. We drink more that we should and have trouble lighting our smokes. We are reckless and we don't care.  
We think we are immortal
There was no conceptualization of the future, living moment to moment, without any forethought or worries of that which would soon assault us. Just a few more months, in a sliver of time our paths lead in different directions. Before wandering or being thrown into our own lives as adults.

Some of us are still friends, a couple have reconnected after many years, others have drifted off, and a few have already left us entirely...

If those drunken dumb-ass 17 year olds had the tinyiest hint of what was to become their future would they change anything... I guess that's always the question isn't it.
 

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