Long Way To Go

Do you remember that song by Cassie from 2006/07, "Long Way To Go"? This song was popular around the time my relationship with my first REAL girlfriend (I won't count R) was not going well and I had started to talk to this girl Indri on MySpace. We seemed to have a lot in common and talked about music too. Indri made me a mixtape CD and this particular song was on it.

Unfortunately, we never got to meet and be together like we thought we could (a story for another day), but this song still takes me back to 2006/07 in my mind. 

It's that magical time when I had just turned 21, had gathered my first experience with love and when being in a foreign country was still an adventure and big deal for me. 

There's other songs on that album too and they also remind me of that time, but this particular one kind of stuck because it makes me remember sleeping in a room upstairs from my girlfriend at her parents home. This was a long time before smartphones and we still sent us SMS before sleep and I would read John Grisham. In the mornings and evenings, I would take a shower (with only cold water) and I still have the smell of my shower gel by Axe in the back of my head...

Growing up can be nice, but I do miss those simpler days.