Happy memories

Memory is a funny thing. Yup. We want to remember some things and then again wish we could erase others, which would be a sad thing, cuz even though memory can be painful and even traumatic, we are HUMAN and the only species on this earth who develop a memory as complex as ours. No other living being can (I'm not gonna get into other galaxies and possible aliens who can do even greater things, this is about earth :P). Plus, the ability to erase memory, would probably increase the likelihood of commiting the same or similar thing, because logically we would not be able to remember. So yea, how cool is that? Memory makes us special. Which reminds me (*haha* how ironic), "how cool is that" is so something Bloggy Ranson would say *argh*. Evidently, I'm reading your blog too much! :P

I actually enjoy digging in my memory once in a while and remind myself of all the pleasant moments I have experienced. Funny thing. Sometimes I don't do it purposely, but it just pops up out of no where, just because I come across something. I'm only thinking of this now I suppose (yes while studying), because I listened to music and stumbled upon "Pat Metheny: Last Train Home", which made me really happy or actually more sentimental than anything. I always associate this particular song with "going home". Probably, because when I was really young, we would always listen to it in the car on our 7 hour drive to go to my grandparents house. So whenever I listen to this song, I have this little movie running in my head, of the wide empty German Autobahn, flat land with merely marginal elevations every now and then, wide fields, my super cool dad who drove really fast (which btw motivated me to get my driving license asap, so I could be just as cool as my dad), and the sweet smelling air (yes I honestly believe that German air smells sweet) *patrioticsmile*.

Since I'm feeling a bit sentimental and somehow drained (probably cuz of yesterday's exam, all my seratonin must have depleted ^^*), this song made me particularily melancholic and I realized that I get to go home very very soon. And I suppose by "home" I actually mean Germany. This time, only much older, I have finally acquired my license and I get to listen to this same song, while going on that long drive to my grandparents house and I get to drive the big car on the wide empty German Autobahn myself, on the flat land with merely marginal elevations every now and then and look at the wide fields and be super cool me (just like my dad) and enjoy the fast speed and the sweet smelling air *sigh*. I will not dedicate this song as the tune of the day just as yet. I'll wait until I will actually go home. *smiles* This song is definitely one of my top ten "strong-memory" songs.

While I was already on this memory digging trip I remembered this talk I had with TDH yesterday, which was again connected to a song and reminded me of an incident last semester, at the very end of the semester. Random Elmi, Fashionable Leox and me went to the markets on the weekend after the exams. It was a happy and warm spring day and we were just strolling around and soaking up the sun outside the markets. I still wanted to buy some souvenirs, so we decided to go inside and look around and while we were standing at this stand and looking at stuff, I got distracted by this little boy, who must have been about 9 or 10. He plainly stood in the corner, formed by 2 market stands and started strumming his guitar and sang this beautiful song. The lyrics fit him completely and his voice was just incredibly magical. I was seriously stunned. I started wondering whether he had written the song or was just covering it. So I nudged Random Elmi (who btw was very impressed too) and convinced Random Elmi to go ask the boy what song it was. It turns out that he didn't write the song himself, but Angus and Julia stone did :). Whenever I listen to this song, I associate this song with Elmi and me standing there in awe, watching this little boy sing the song, feeling the the warm air around us, birds chirping and the sun setting. And without fail, (not expected any different) it made me smile this time around again :).

[Tune]
Angus & Julia Stone: Just A Boy