Rearview Mirror

Recently I was in a rented hall, listening to a wonderful band, a couple hundred people crowding around me, munching on crunchy things and sipping cold ones... and

I felt utterly and totally alone.

I couldn't help remembering the last time I was in a rented hall with the band, so many good friends and happy memories. Dancing with the girlfriends, while husbands told tall tales, eating to many snacks and watching their wives wiggle on the dance floor, ever so grateful to dodge that particular bullet. But time passes by.... and things change.

I don't remember when or how, it just happens. One night you go to bed secure in the knowledge of your place in the world and that your world makes sense, only to wake up in the morning and find yourself knee deep in chaos, convinced that you will never to be 'certain' of anything ever again...

{sigh} I miss my friends....