Today a flash of history past me by,I could not trust my eyes! Did I just see what just walked past me?
Two boys past me on their way to school. Drainpipe trousers shiny and new Oh! boy did they look cool.To finish off with winklepicker shoes.I could not believe my baby blues.
It whisked me back to carefree days of scooters, boas and purple haze.My mind took off and had a whirl there I stood the younger girl.
Black and white shift dress and knee high shiny white plastic boots a mini skirt to attract whistles and car horn hoots.
One again I was sixteen, free and happy a Carnaby Queen. I was never tall but always lean, I loved the fashions to wear them I was keen.
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Well that was fab and groovy it was certainly the way to be! But sadly life goes on and my dream is dashed and again my youth has gone.
But I don’t care and I don’t mind I am still seventeen inside my head I find!!
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Eleven years ago I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " not quite but with the help of a walking stick and as long as I do not stand or sit in one position for too long, I am still standing! Update I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust, I will of been married 50yrs plus this year . Pain and boredom are my enemies now, I have to find different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and
hopefully in to light ??
I need to update this a little here. I have worked very hard over the years since my accident, I go to the gym regularly, I have a Pilates class and a core class once a week . The guys at the gym and my Pilates teacher cajoled, teased, bullied and encouraged me to abandon my walking stick! :) My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and as strongly as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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8 thoughts on “Memory Flash”
& Bryan’s “18 till I die” is all that echoes now…
May you preserve that inner child in you till your last breath…
history repeating itself or deja vu?
every generation has its own … The other day my little girl went to school on crazy socks day… A day whee they wear missed matched socks and or funky color / print. I am seeing this alot… We did this back in my day but because we didn’t have matching socks not as a fad.
Yes I can remember we had miss matched socks too it was fun as long as we did not get caught !! As for fashion there is nothing new it is all played out in big circles!!Fashion always comes round again! 😉
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& Bryan’s “18 till I die” is all that echoes now…
May you preserve that inner child in you till your last breath…
Love & Light
Love and light to you too Mira ;-). Yes I hope to stay young at heart for ever and I hope that you will stay young in your heart forever too.
It’s fun to remember, isn’t it?
Yes, yes it is great fun 😉 xx 😉
history repeating itself or deja vu?
every generation has its own … The other day my little girl went to school on crazy socks day… A day whee they wear missed matched socks and or funky color / print. I am seeing this alot… We did this back in my day but because we didn’t have matching socks not as a fad.
Yes I can remember we had miss matched socks too it was fun as long as we did not get caught !! As for fashion there is nothing new it is all played out in big circles!!Fashion always comes round again! 😉
I love the 60s look and would rock it all in a hot minute. 😉
Yes the sixties we fun and you’d of loved it.