Right Here Waiting

That's right. Richard Marx. Right Here Waiting. A song that will live through years to come. A song that brings back memories flooding. There are songs, movies, poems, pictures which send you through a time warp, rushing and hurtling you backwards. That avenue in your mind which you thought had been pretty much closed till that time suddenly opens up and you are a floating ghost in that broken down avenue lost in time. There's your school, there's your schoolyard, there's that school bus waiting for you, there's that ice cream man, there's that girls school a few minutes from yours where you made your first girlfriend. There's that cycle all broken your dad had gifted you, there's that tiffin box your mom made lunch in, there's that window pane still lying shattered in the place you had broken it, there's the football your sister had gifted you.

And you see all of it suddenly. Just because of that one song, one word, one movie, one advertisement. Right Here Waiting did that to me today. I was at a Chinese restaurant, eating and sipping at a glass of wine with a friend and this song suddenly started up on the speakers overhead out of the blue. And BAM! That did it. I was a ghost in the quiet streets, retreating steadily away from the buzz of the place and from what she was saying.

Memories make for the best and worst of times. And times when these avenues open up in your mind, all you do is go quiet and wish for another chance at all you see on those streets. But growing up has its own way. These are just perks of your journey ahead in life. And even though you shake your head and try to nod your way back into reality, the thoughts cling on for a while and you remain lost for quite sometime. A phone call, a skype chat, a text is all that you can do to try and connect with the memories of the people who slid into your head suddenly.

This very feeling of lost is out of the world. But just because you're losing, doesn't mean you're lost.