ever have this happen?

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ever have this happen?
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Fri, 04-22-2005 - 5:00pm

Ever have one of those weird, "flashback" experiences? I heard a song on the radio and it zapped me back several years, to someone I "almost had a relationship with"...I wondered where he is, and how he's doing and what he looks like. I haven't thought of him in years...I feel like I'm in a time warp. Any ideas? When it happens to you do you fight your way out of it? Stay and savor it?

Do songs ever do that to you?

This one was Sophie b hawkins...As I lay me Down.

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Fri, 04-22-2005 - 10:34pm

Candi,


The song that brings me back is Unanswered Prayer by Garth Brooks.

Lori
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Sun, 04-24-2005 - 1:28am

I've got one of those guys in my mind too. I haven't thought of him in a long time but when I read your post, he just popped right up- like it was yesterday. I know it wouldn't have worked out and all, but, at the time, I really believed it would. I believed he loved and cared about me. It was the one time in my entire life that I felt safe, that everything would be ok, I would be safe. The only time. Wow- amazing how it can all come rushing back so quickly isnt it?

Amy

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Sun, 04-24-2005 - 12:23pm


:)

I know what you mean. The guy who I was thinking about would have been a disaster to be with. I think of him as my "it would have been a LOVELY catastrophe" man.

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Sun, 04-24-2005 - 11:20pm

I have one of those in my memory banks too...young and fierce love, but bad timing. He was 10 years older than me and ready to get married and start a family. I was only 21 and trying to finish college and get out on my own. He was also in the military and getting ready to move from where we were in California to North Calorina.
I know I truly loved him, and he felt the same way about me, but it wasn't going to work.

I think about him every so often. When I was single, I did savor it. I went as far as to google him and pull out the dog tags he gave me. I located him through the marine locator program, but then stopped shy of contacting him. I fantasized for a while of suprising him with a visit, but then I came back to reality.

When I remember him now, I smile and sigh and think well wishes for him, but then I let it go...

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Mon, 04-25-2005 - 11:27am
All the time. But I can't think of a single one right now. It happens in a flash, and then it's gone. Funny. Kenny Chesney has a song "I go back" that is about that. It's too true.
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Mon, 04-25-2005 - 11:29am

When I remember him now, I smile and sigh and think well wishes for him, but then I let it go......


That's a nice way to put that. I guess maybe we all have one of those "What might have been" types. I saw my guy like that a few months ago for the first time in years. It really threw me for a loop. Had odd dreams and a few sad days. I wouldn't exchange what I have for the world, but it's still a bittersweet thing.

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Mon, 04-25-2005 - 6:36pm
Yes - music can sure do that, Candi. I love music that inspires - and brings back good memories!!