My Mid Life Nostalgia Trip

7:05 pm Wednesday, 7^th May, 2014

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I recently watched the Stone Roses movie and whilst watching became quite nostalgic. Usually I'm not a nostalgic kind of person, time marches on and I don't think it's that healthy to live in the past and secondly our time on this planet is finite so better to get on with things is my philosophy.

Two things went through my mind as I watched this film.

One was that had I have been more aware of the reforming of the Stone Roses that maybe I could have been one of those middle aged guys in the audience featured on the footage. I too could have been one of those guy's looking completely fucking ridiculous in clothes much too young for me and dancing like someone's pissed up dad at a wedding.

The other though was of the girl I once knew, where is she now, what is she doing and how I'd like to maybe meet her again if only once. If we were to meet would we still get on, maybe we'd go for a drink and reminisce about old times. Maybe there'd still be that physical attraction and who knows we may even find ourselves in bed together again reliving those early sexual experiences. Would it be better? We'd both be older and wiser, more relaxed and sexually confident. Or would our desperate attempts to relive our youth end in disaster with the reality of the passage of time.

Who knows what the reality would be, maybe one day I'll have the opportunity to find out but until that day I suppose I'll just have play out the possible scenarios in my mind with my pants round my ankles as I knock one out!

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	10:10 pm Wednesday, 7^th May, 2014 Skebbie One thing I've learned in life is that as time marches on it's great to reminisce, but only with fondness and not with longing. Naturally I've often thought about what would have happened with Miss X or Y if I'd only known what I know now, and if I hadn't lacked the self confidence I now enjoy (or to be more precise, less hung up about the consequences of my actions). Personally, though, I think it's delusional to seriously fantasize about getting together again with past GFs (or even past would-be GFs): a time and a season, and all that...... In the active time remaining to me, I can't see any appeal in retracing my sexual steps: surely if life is to continue being an adventure, then it can only be in new directions. I'm great friends with a number of ex-GFs but there's no way we'd ever get in the sack together. It would almost be like desecrating the memories we share. In a way, continuing to walk together as comrades along life's path is a kind of adventure, because when I was young, the opportunity of ageing gracefully with past lovers was totally non sequitur: now it's a an added bonus at this stage of life.
	5:34 am Thursday, 8^th May, 2014 Luv2sucU Apart from it being ok to wear shoulder pads and brightly coloured eye shadow, I rarely look back and think 'if only' or with a nostalgic longing for what once was. Maybe that's because NOW is my time. Right NOW, I'm doing just fine. I'm enjoying myself, have reason to smile and laugh often. Sometimes, I look back and wish I had been more like the me 'now' back then when I was younger. 'Old for my years' I think was the term once used by a not so good friend. The good news is, right now I still feel 21 and I am doing my best to catch up and create the memories that I can look back on with some nostalgia when I'm old and grey. Let's just say I'm giving the geriatric me plenty to think about ... Gerry, good blog x
	12:02 am Friday, 9^th May, 2014 gerry2012 Miss Goodnight I have to agree although I can recall a couple of exes which became exes not for good reason and simply because we both had commitments and drifted apart. Twenty years ago the world wasn't as well connected as it is now, I think we forget this as technology seems to have just integrated into our lives so seamlessly and now we take it for granted. Like I posted in the blog my view is generally that of those of you who have commented and that it's the hear and now that's important, I've no doubt that were I to meet the girl I was seeing then it would be nothing like the meeting of my rose tinted daydreams. Strange how something can set you off reminiscing, must have been the music but could just well have been the narcotics. As someone who was also "old for my years" in my late teens and early twenties I wonder if as we get older we regress into child like ways. Should I live into my twilight years I for one am looking forward to winding young people up by taking liberties that only old people can get away with just because I can.

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