When I was nineteen

Inspired by Kelly Scheppers “Hey nineteen”

When I was nineteen

 

 

 

When I was nineteen it was 1983, the same year I graduated High School.

OMG what a time and what a year. We listened to the Beatles, Queen, Pink Floyd, Rush, Kiss, Prince, OZZY, and so much more. We even smoked pot.

 

I was in the High School band and "Boat on a River" to took us away to a magical place of things we could not understand.

I even sat on the second "L" on the Holly Wood sign on a Sunday morning drinking a beer and watching the sun rise over the horizon as the Hollywood lights from the Hollywood strip and the lights from Catalina Island faded in the distance.

It was a Magical time. It was a time of enlightenment, a time that was ours, and no one could ever take that away from us. I think back to those times and cry, for they will never be the same.

 

I look back on that time fondly and remember…that is who we were, that was our time, our destiny to grab and shape our future with. How we wanted to change the world, to make it better, different, OURS.

To make it…it.

Our high School Band was not any band, we told the gang banger's to take off their colors (and they did), we played the Varsity football team on a Saturday, and we took the field as they looked on in dismay.  We were the Champions of our universe.

But the one thing we did not do, nor tolerate from anyone in our School, was to put someone down for who they were.

 

This is a bit of my “Hey nineteen”

Thank you Kelly for letting me remember xoxoxo

 

Reviews

[Jetta Zippora]

Wow. I loved reading this one and traveling back to a simpler and epic time. I was born in 1989 so I missed the fun of the 80s era but I listen to 80s music all the time and watch movies from back then :) I very much enjoy indulging in your stories and poems. Great writing.

[ron]

Thank you Jetta. Yes it was a great time, but I think each of us have that time we have at those age's, so mine was in the 80's yours was about 2008. I would love to hear about yours.

[Frieda P]

Awh you brought back some sweet memories ron, I don't wanna tell you where I was at 19 :) Nope, you can never go back...and did you inhale? ;)

[ron]

Come on now Frieda you can tell Ron anything :)
What did I inhale!? How could you even ask a question like that Frieda? Of course I did :)

[Frieda P]

Nah I'll never tell...oh, you know that old joke about Obama inhaling...as if, why would anyone smoke the stuff and not? Sillyheads...

[ron]

I thought that was Clinton?

[Vidya Bacchus]

Oh sweet reminiscing Red.In I wonder what I was doing at nineteen lol.Nice one :)

[ron]

Thank you Vidya, I bet you were making all the boys go crazy over you.

[Vidya Bacchus]

Ha maybe you're right. You so sweet Red ;-)

[ron]

I know they were and are going crazy over you.

[Vidya Bacchus]

Lol...you would think they would have stopped by now.