Domino effect

How did I get from School vacation to being stuck in a world 20 years ago?

So it all started with school vacation. The kids are off with Nana and Grandpa to New Hampshire to ski while i stay behind and work. The house nice and clean, get up to a wonderful snow storm, work calls at 600am to say “Dont come to work, we are closed” Unfortunately i had a school group there and needed to send them on their way so there was no way of getting out of going to work. No big deal, I work with awesome people and they are always a barrel of laughs! So off i went to work in the snow. We all left, the roads were not that bad so i decided to go do a few errands, get some much needed food for the house, i even picked up a few movies to watch.

While picking up the movies at Blockbuster, I bumped into my friend Chris’s sister. She looks just like she did when she was younger. It was awesome. We chatted, I asked about Chris.

Now Chris had a brain tumor taken out about 4 years ago. he has some short term mermory problems as they had to take some of his gray matter along with the tumor. I would go and see him in the hospital with my friend Wayne. We would trek up to Providence, he would never remember if we had been there the week before. So Wayne and I watched Fifty first dates…giggle. Chris ended up coming home. Confused. Lost. We all would hang out with him. but we all had busy lives and sometimes it was hard to keep up. I would call. But the calls were never returned. I would wonder how he was doing but life keep going. I would bump into friends and ask how he was doing. No one knew. He was lost in his own world.

So gave her my number, never expecting him to call me back. Off i went, back to my clean house, JNB and I watched Little Miss Sunshine. It was a great movie by the way. Saturday comes, I watch another movie in my clean house, and Chris calls. It is like a trip down memory lane. He remembers me, but he remembers me dating Spezz, that was 20 years ago though. I had to explain to him that we no longer date, that i had children, three of them. He was shocked to hear that my oldest will be 10 next month. And shocked I had twins! He told me he had gotten out of the hospital 6 months or so ago….more like 4 years. It was so sad, he was a bit eccentric but it broke my heart to hear how lost he was. How little he remembers, yet how he remembers 20 years ago like it were yesterday.

It makes me want to appreciate my life and my memories good or bad. I would hate to be stuck in my life that was 20 years ago.