Back in the Day

Sometimes all we have in common is the past.

Most people find a way of settling down eventually. Some find a career, others a spouse. The older we get, the further we drift from our friends and our old ways of living. It can’t be helped. It just happens. You can’t pin the blame on anyone; it’s life and that’s the way it is. After awhile your friends become close strangers and you stop talking about the things you used to do. Now you just talk about your kids and how the time flies, and how you don’t have time to talk anymore or hang out, or do anything really. Life—and growing old—has a way of exhausting you. It doesn’t really change you; it just kind of puts you on a shelf and lets you collect dust.

That’s why when Amy came knocking on my door I knew something was up…