FOLLOWCRAIG

It’s been a very longtime since I have written and frankly I’ve missed sharing. Tonight I watched a new movie “ELVIS”, the film was just released and is streaming on Prime Video. What a time we live in to be able watch a first run film right at home.

Anyway, Elvis Presley died way to young at the age of 42 in the year 1977. As I watched the film my own memories of that time became so vivid. You see my father died the same year as Elvis and he was also the same age, 42. The memories of this period of time, the music, the political unrest, my own life experiences back then have shaped me to the become the 70 year old man I am today. Like Elvis, my father passed away of a heart attack and in many ways dad was a lot like Elvis, at least to me. Dad played the organ in his spare restful times, he loved music much like me. Dad was very smart and frankly very well known in his Phoenix, Arizona town where he lived. I really miss him a lot. So you may be asking why am I sharing this stuff? Perhaps you’re not but I am. I think it’s freedom, the freedom to remember and be free.

I had dreams back then, so many dreams of what I wanted to be, Those dreams changed over the years as I began to experience life on life’s terms. Dreams changed, faded and many were lost over these years. I wonder what dad would have become in his later life had he lived longer and I would have grown with him. Would he and I be friends? Would he love his grand children? These questions could on and on. Someone told me once that all of us, you and me all experience loss, love, joy, sadness and so many other emotions. We all may have traveled our own paths but the emotions of the experience’s are the same. Pain is pain and joy is joy. Memories are what we build our life upon. our experiences and how we move on from them shape our future. My own surely shaped me. How about you? Have you reached the dreams you had when you were young or have yours changed or faded as well? Have you had new dreams come true? I think that’s what’s important, the dreams we’ve had come true even if we never knew we dreamed them.

Yes, I miss my dad. I miss the Elvis’s of the world and all those who have made a difference and shaped who I am. How about you, are you the person you’re supposed to be? I enjoyed the movie tonight, I really did. I do hope to continue being around for a long time so I continue to become who I am supposed to be but even more, I hope you are becoming the person you’re supposed to be. You see, as we become comfortable in our own selves and know who we are, it’s then we can give ourselves to others and hopefully help them become free as well.

Thank you for reading this …

Please keep following, Craig