Aaaah the Memories…

Mrs. Flinger started my day down memory lane with her contribution to a ‘Flashback Friday.’

Ah the 80’s

I was in high school from 81 to 1986.

I was then what we called a ‘prep.’ I wore lots of pink.

There was a lot of pink at our grad.

In 1988….I had big curly hair. I still really like perms on me.

I loved ‘New Wave’ music.New Order were my gods.As were Tears for Fears….this was the anthem…the soundtrack to our lives. To our angst.
You remember teenage angst?
We were all full of pain and heart ache and ‘nobody understands me.’
And yes, some of us really did have big issues….others….like me…were just teenagers.

I listened to the Eurythmics and new all the lyrics.
I wrote poetry about unrequited love.
I drew cool people….
I was also a total nerd.

I never fit in. I read (still do) comics and sci fi. I never seemed to care about the same things everyone else did.

But I loved my music. And I loved to dance.

When we discovered the after hours clubs and the places that we could sneak in to….that was it. I danced my troubles away.

After my summer gig at Expo 86, I met my first true love in a club. We shared a love of music and dancing and looking good. A shallow shallow relationship. I was so in awe of him. I basked in his coolness. I basked in the envy I was sure other girls felt.

I was destroyed when he broke up with me.

I was 19 and life was over.  I played Bizarre Love Triangle over and over.  I used to watch him at the key cutting place he worked at at Oakridge Mall from afar.   I signed up at Langara College because I knew he was going there.

Through it all he seemed (politely) oblivious to my need for him.   He always greeted me with charm and warmth.  He for years called me on my birthday.

And I danced.

It pathetically took me a long time to get over it all.  To retain my dignity.

Well….till I was 21 and met my now husband!

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