"Cause Times They Are a Changin'..."
Yet again, here I sit almost a MONTH after my last post...for anyone who actually reads this blog, or TRIES to read it semi-regularly, my apologies. I promise I'll try and do a better job with getting posts up a little more often. Now, on with the blogging...
So I'm not really sure what song those lyrics in the title are from, but I'm sure I've heard them before. Change is on my mind because of something my friend Casey said to me in a moment of drunken insight this last Sunday after a long and excellent day of football and relaxation. Seriously, I was out at Weaver-Vegas for almost twelve hours Sunday...1:00pm - 12:30am, hanging out with a group of my best friends in Asheville, watching the Panthers, grilling food, enjoying a few drinks and generally having a great time. Anyway, around 10:30 the dozen or so of us that were there were all in the front yard either sitting in the back of Joe's pickup, or standing around it, listening to some seriously classic tunes on the stereo, singing as loud and proud as we possibly could. This went on for a good fourty-five minutes or so, and I remember thinking to myself "Man, it's been a long time since we all got together like this". Thing is, it used to be a regular occasion my first couple years of school, but since then it's become increasingly more difficult to get everyone together as a group - our lives are changing. I mean Christ, two of the people there were freakin' MARRIED (to each other) and one of them was (is!) one of the hardest partying girls I ever met! (much love Rima Dean) If that's not some change for ya, then I don't know what is.
Anyway, I know I said this was mostly about Casey's drunken insight...and it is. After the singing, and before I went home, he stopped me in the kitchen and in a very drunken, but very serious voice said to me "Sloan, remember tonight...because these are the best nights. These are the nights you'll always remember. We can't stay in Asheville forever, everyone is going to leave one day - but you'll always remember nights like this." I admit, I was a little taken aback by this, cause Casey has always been one of the major constants in my life in Asheville. He was literally one of the first dozen people I ever met here, and I owe him a huge debt for showing up at my dorm room one Wednesday and dragging me off to Pierson House to watch the Man Show with all the old KDR's and GPBs. Anyway, to hear HIM of all people talk about leaving Asheville was a little sobering to say the least. I've already seen it happen to some of my friends in Raleigh and Chapel Hill...you graduate college and then suddenly a group that was as close knit a collection of people as you could find is suddenly blown apart and scattered literally all over the country. It's a hard idea to accept.
Bottom line though, it's true...I could leave Asheville anytime, and sometimes I feel like it might be sooner rather then later - but if and when I do, the nights I'll remember the most, when I get wherever I'm going, are the ones I spent with my friends, trying hard not to sing out of key.
So I'm not really sure what song those lyrics in the title are from, but I'm sure I've heard them before. Change is on my mind because of something my friend Casey said to me in a moment of drunken insight this last Sunday after a long and excellent day of football and relaxation. Seriously, I was out at Weaver-Vegas for almost twelve hours Sunday...1:00pm - 12:30am, hanging out with a group of my best friends in Asheville, watching the Panthers, grilling food, enjoying a few drinks and generally having a great time. Anyway, around 10:30 the dozen or so of us that were there were all in the front yard either sitting in the back of Joe's pickup, or standing around it, listening to some seriously classic tunes on the stereo, singing as loud and proud as we possibly could. This went on for a good fourty-five minutes or so, and I remember thinking to myself "Man, it's been a long time since we all got together like this". Thing is, it used to be a regular occasion my first couple years of school, but since then it's become increasingly more difficult to get everyone together as a group - our lives are changing. I mean Christ, two of the people there were freakin' MARRIED (to each other) and one of them was (is!) one of the hardest partying girls I ever met! (much love Rima Dean) If that's not some change for ya, then I don't know what is.
Anyway, I know I said this was mostly about Casey's drunken insight...and it is. After the singing, and before I went home, he stopped me in the kitchen and in a very drunken, but very serious voice said to me "Sloan, remember tonight...because these are the best nights. These are the nights you'll always remember. We can't stay in Asheville forever, everyone is going to leave one day - but you'll always remember nights like this." I admit, I was a little taken aback by this, cause Casey has always been one of the major constants in my life in Asheville. He was literally one of the first dozen people I ever met here, and I owe him a huge debt for showing up at my dorm room one Wednesday and dragging me off to Pierson House to watch the Man Show with all the old KDR's and GPBs. Anyway, to hear HIM of all people talk about leaving Asheville was a little sobering to say the least. I've already seen it happen to some of my friends in Raleigh and Chapel Hill...you graduate college and then suddenly a group that was as close knit a collection of people as you could find is suddenly blown apart and scattered literally all over the country. It's a hard idea to accept.
Bottom line though, it's true...I could leave Asheville anytime, and sometimes I feel like it might be sooner rather then later - but if and when I do, the nights I'll remember the most, when I get wherever I'm going, are the ones I spent with my friends, trying hard not to sing out of key.
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