Blast from the Past

Yesterday, driving home from work I was looking through an older CD case for something to listen to (Carl had put Rage Against the Machine into my CD player). I stumbled across a CD with a faded and somewhat scratched title, "Route 81". Route 81 was the small singing group from the boys school when I was a senior. I always remember thinking what wonderful singers they were, so I popped the CD in. As trite as it sounds, I felt almost as if I were sitting in the senior room again, Valentines day 1999. The sounds of Terry singing "Wonderful Tonight" rang through my car, just as he sang it to Holly. I could remember the expressions of Marc, Jared, Terry, and Matt. These songs on this CD, sung by these voices, was the soundtrack of my senior year. My friends were dating members of the group, and we were all about school spirit, supporting any and all school functions. We heard Route 81 sing a lot. When they put out the CD, we listened to them even more.
Sometimes its nice to hear a song that reminds you of something in the past, something good that you wished would never end (like your senior year in high school).