When I was younger my dad, brother, and mom used to all go to the beach together. My dad would pack this huuugggeeeee cooler with food and drinks and stuff...
Mind you this was MAAANNNYYYYY years ago lol
I was on Tumblr, and a music clip came up. So I clicked it.
It was Mambo Number 5
My god...
Every little detail came back to me...
I just remember every little thing about this one particular day...
(We used to go to the beach A LOT, but this one memory stuck with me for some reason..)
So I remember sitting at the picnic table, my mom was sun bathing, Ronnie (my brother) was messing with the sand critters he caught earlier, my dad was at the grill, and I was messing with the radio. When I came to a station with this song, I remember my brother telling me to leave it on this station. So I did.
Ronnie started singing along, I just laughed and said he was weird
Then my dad joined in, and I laughed even more
I even remember what we were all wearing...
It's crazy...
Like I was really young, but this song just brought back this particular memory, which in turn made me remember a bunch of other things...
It's kind of overwhelming...
Over the years I've done my best to block all most of my memories out just to protect myself
But certain things bring thoughts back...
And they hurt
Even the really good memories
They just hurt now
Of course I laugh thinking about them all
But after the laughter comes the tears
and the pain
always the pain...
and it's hard enough to keep my sanity these days...
So it's really better for everyone if I just forgot them all
But I don't really /want/ to forget those times...
They are very precious to me... I just can't bare to be in this much pain all the time....
Anyway
I really didn't mean for this to be so dreary
Back on topic
So do you guys have any certain songs/other random things that remind you of certain memories?
Like one of mine is Mambo #5, and it reminds me of a lovely day I spent at the beach with my family
another is blue lobsters. Whenever I see one I think of back when I would visit my grandma at her beach condo (I spent A LOT of time near the ocean as a kid lol) and this one time I remember making smores with my brother and a friend at a family beach party like thing (There were a bunch of families and other kids, and we just played in the sand and danced like idiots lol plus there was a bonfire ect) Anyway, I remember my Grandma coming down to the beach and telling us dinner was almost ready so we needed to get cleaned up. So we left. Went up walked back to the condo. And we see a bunch of lobsters crawling around in the sink. I was fascinated to say the least. So I asked why they were brown and not red like other lobsters. Grandma told me they turn red after they were cooked. And I asked why she didn't get the blue ones like they had at the other store so they would turn purple after they were cooked.
I was quite disappointed because I might have had a chance to eat a PURPLE lobster
RIGHTO, so she told me to wash up and she'll have a surprise for when we come back. After we were clean/in dry clothes we went to the kitchen and the lobsters were all cooked and sitting on newspapers. Surrounding said news papers were a bunch of bottles of paint!
She actually went out and bought us paint so we could have those coveted purple lobsters....
Holy balls I write too much on here...
You'd think I talk a lot in real life but I'm actually really quiet
TheOtaku is really the only place where I go overboard with this ranting business........
Anyway
it's late
(about 3:30am)
Goodnight~
~Riska
ps- asking again... Do you guys have any certain songs/other random things that remind you of certain memories?
