I know that this is kind of late and we are already 3 days into 2011, but I am feeling a little nostalgic and I decided yeah 2010 does deserve a proper send off, and by proper send off I mean I'm going to blog about it.
So what can I say about 2010, I remember it starting with such great promise. I can hear myself now talking to one of my best friends. "2010 is gonna be our year." And even as we rang in 2011 we both still remember those words and had a good laugh about it. because now, "2011 is gonna be our year."
There were so many highs and lows of 2010 I really don't know where to start, but I guess the easiest way to do it is to talk about one very important milestone in my life in 2010, and that was falling in love for the first time, and then consequently getting my heart broken by a girl for the first time. Such a strange feeling for me this was, because quite frankly I have always been the guy on the outside looking in of this whole thing. But let me tell you being right in the middle of it all was pretty hard. There's a movie that I love, and a guy is going to visit the girl that he is in love with and when he gets there she is with another guy, so he gets on the elevator to leave and she comes running after him, and she catches him and he says to her, "Do me a favor, don't say nothing, ok? Just stand there til I leave. I wanna remember this. I've never done it before." and of course she says "done what?" And with a slight smile he says, "Had my heart broken." When I saw that movie I thought it was just great, but now I can appreciate it so much more.
2010 was also a year of adventure for me. I left Oklahoma and ventured out to Virginia to try and make a fresh start I guess. And even though it didn't turn out the way I planned it was one hell of a journey. I met people that I will hold close to me for the rest of my life. And I made a good friend who helped me through a rough time in my life and gave me some perspective on everything so to speak. And while I was up there in mountains I began to be able to write again, something that I had kind of given up on. It was a great time in my life, and maybe someday I will look back on it and realize that is the time when I figured out who it was I wanted to be.
2010 was also filled with some pretty interesting road trips. There was the trip in Virginia when me and my good friend MIKE traveled to another town to meet up with a girl he was into and her friends and watched one of the most amazing bands I have ever seen in my entire life. I'm not exactly what you would call the music man, but this band, if I did run a record label would be the exact type of band that I would try to sign. That night felt like it went on forever and thank god because it was awesome.
Then there was the Chicago excursion with some of my best friends, and let me tell you it was one for the ages. I don't even think I can begin to tell you all of the details of what happened because it is so ridiculous that I know you won't even believe me. But let me just tell you some of the highlights, a home-run ball was caught and thrown back in Wrigley Field, Big Ron was hitting on a group of Russian girls and they loved it, Newman brought back a girl from a bachlorette party, We stayed up all night at a karaoke bar, I'm so drunk/hungover I can't figure out the train system and almost miss my flight, and Coop is so drunk that a group of hookers rob him so he misses his fight and then he gets bit by a rat. Stuff of legends all that I can say.
Then there was OU/TEXAS and what a trip that was. My group of close friends finally hit the jack-pot and Big Ron and Cory got a RV. Probably not the best idea for this group but definitely the funniest thing that has ever happened to us. And OU/TEXAS was proof of that, traveling down the road with a keg in the shower of the RV having the time of our lives. It was basically a party bus. Now on to the highlights, Don taking his shirt off and owning a dance contest, Driving with Chaz singing country music with our shirts off at 2:30 in the morning, almost getting arrested for nudity (your welcome), Don passing out on a toilet at the Texas state fair (all a part of his plan), partying the whole way home and never wanting to get off that RV.
2010 has been one hell of a year. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to but I guess that's life really, I don't think it ever does. I feel like I'm so far from where I really want to be in life, but somehow I'm kind of okay with it, just kind of. I've made some great friends in 2010 and had some great times with great friends, I've lost a lot of myself and I've also gained a lot. I don't know if I've broken even but all in all I think it was pretty good. The best line of 2010 has to go to the one and only DON POWERS- "Hey five piece... not a dime piece, but a five piece." The most important thing I've learned from 2010 is this,(What people say only matters to them, it's what they do that really counts, it's the only thing that really does.) I'm so happy for all of it though, and I don't regret any of it. Hopefully 2011 brings many more new challenges and great things.
Until next time, Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'
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