There are many, many wonderful things about being alive, and I always like to take note when something wonderful happens in my own life - 'cause sometimes, you need to be reminded.
Stumbling across other people who become forces within our lives is one such wonderful thing. Particularly this year I have met several people who have left their influence on me, not always for good, but certainly more often for good than for bad. For all my bumbling and stunted conversational prowess, I do actually love meeting new people. Never turn down the opportunity to learn something from someone else and never EVER turn down the risk of learning from experience.
Last night my good friend and bandmate Jess had her 18th birthday party, at which our band played (played = made noise over noise over more noise). The set went fine, the best our young band has played yet, in fact - but my favourite, favourite memory from the night will remain Jess yelling over 'She's Famous Now' by Reel Big Fish, between dancing ferociously, between juggling a beer and my keyboard stand, between holding my shoulders and me falling down the cracks in the verandah/dance space, into my ear:
'Dude! We're so gonna be famous one day!'
Laughing the kind of laugh reserved for nights of enthusiastic teen drinking and dancing to ska-punk I whipped my band uniform-cape from behind my back and just nodded, in part vehement compliance, in part keeping with the beat.
I don't know where I'm going, or what I'm doing, now, or in a year's time. I just take the days as they come and they come thick, and fast, and mostly I miss the things that really matter to me because of distractions loud, consequences dire, and time short. I feel it escalating and tensions rising and anxieties accumulating - but I remember, with the help of sincerely good people, good music, good humour and a damn good party, how things should be, and should return to, in a matter of some brief, unpredictable weeks. We just bide our time, coming out every so often to blink into the sun, stretch our bodies, and dance.
(For further reference, my band's page can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Volumetric/)
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