Summer 95'

I was just thinking about summer and how quickly it is approaching. I am highly anticipating a very wonderful summer. Which reminds me of the best summer of my life... Summer 95. I had just graduated from high school and found myself working at a YMCA camp. It truly was the best summer! Being outside all day running around, swimming, cook-outs, camping, road-trips, all with some of the coolest people i have ever met. I even found myself becoming best friends with a boy that later i fell in love with. We had some amazingly good times that summer. Being 18 and with high school behind me, I was free to have as much fun as i wanted to and so I did. All before having to face the "real world". I don't know if i will ever have a summer like that again, probably not in the same way, but i will and can still have some fun summers ahead of me. I love good memories, but they are also bitter sweet. I love remembering those happy moments, but the fact that i will never get them back makes me a bit sad... but not in a bad way, just in a way that reminds me that we really never can go back... only forward... hopefully with better things on the horizon and even more happy memory moments!
The boy that i mentioned early would sing me Dave Matthews Band songs (DMB was HUGE that summer!) and he would sing me this one particular one.... As I sit here listening to the lyrics, they still resonate...

The Best of What's Around

Hey my friend

It seems your eyes are troubled

Care to share your time with me

Would you say you're feeling low and so

A good idea would be to get it off your mind

See you and me

Have a better time than most can dream

Have it better than the best

So we can pull on through

Whatever tears at us

Whatever holds us down

And if nothing can be done

We'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where but who you're with

That really matters

And hurts not much when you're around

And if you hold on tight

To what you think is your thing

You may find you're missing all the rest

Well she ran up into the light surprised

Her arms are open

Her mind's eye is

Seeing things from a

Better side than most can dream

On a clearer road I feel

Oh you could say she's safe

Whatever tears at her

Whatever holds her down

And if nothing can be done

She'll make the best of what's around.

~dmb