CHASING YESTERDAY

NEVER STOP TRYING TO RELIVE YOUR YOUTH!!!

IT WILL NEVER WORK,

BUT YOU WILL HAVE A

RAT OUT TIME

TRYING!!!

One should never enter into a fool's game unknowingly, but doing it knowingly is just fine. Too many people spend their lives chasing their youth and the excitment that buzzed all around them in earlier years. Some might think this of me.

I unlike many of my age group am involved in a much younger culture than most. This is at least partially due to the age of my lovely wife. But to be honest, it is probably not much of an excuse. I love music and especially new music. Most of my generation are content to find enjoyment in the familiar and stick with the music that we came of age to. I too love this genre, I just don't give it much play. Unearthing a new sound and interpreting it's effect on my ears, my feet, my head, and my soul is perhaps the closest I will ever come to truly RELIVING my youth. This is because I define "youth" as just that, the discovery.

Last weekend I attended a music festival full of energy, passion, spirit, but more than anything, discovery. Young people discovering everything around themselves, their limits, their passion for music, their exuberance, their love. These new and wonderful feelings course through our minds and bodies at dizzying speeds for many of our younger years. Later life settles and becomes more predictable, not in a bad way, but certainly not described as dizzying. The kids at Nocturnal were on fire with all of the stimuli provided them by the promoter and fellow revelers. Seeing a new generation finding themselves and experiencing all of the things that I have become intimate with through shear repetition is a beautiful thing. I can't feel what they are feeling anymore, familiarity has robbed me of that, but now my "new" is found in observing the kids. Well, that and the energy found on the dance floor are reason enough to continue on.

Now I am not saying that all things good in life suddenly cease after youth, but a definitive change of pace does come. New emotions and colors of love are presented to the older generation, most often embodied in our children and the bond of hearts that provides us with just cause for our existance. I can't wait to watch my kids...now won't that be fun.