So, I wrote about that Maroon 5 song that I added to my “Daddy” playlist. I hadn’t heard it for a while so I played it last night when I read over my blog post. Well, I lost it!… Again. 17 years later!!!
I turned this song on and as I heard the opening bars, I saw myself driving to the School of Education at U of M Dearborn. It was just off main campus and driving there from my work, seeing that I have lived in Dearborn for my entire life, certain landmarks hold deep memories for me!
I think that I have written about this memory before, but it was just after my Dad died when I was still in school to get my masters degree. The School of Education building is on the way to the Henry Ford dialysis center. I think it had been just months after my Dad had died and I was driving to school after I had to teach for the day.
Something that I have realized now that I no longer work, it was SO BEYOND tiring to work for the 12 years that I did work! So, I was tired and I still needed to go to class. As I was driving to school in a familiar environment, I saw a car that was my Dad’s car! My Dad had stopped driving for a few years before he died but you couldn’t tell me that then when that car turned into the dialysis center.
I gasped and turned into the parking lot of the building where my class was. I always parked in the front in the disabled parking. I pulled into the spot, and I lost it! I told Sean that the other day. I never told him that before. He was only four. but 17 years later, I thought I could handle it, but when I heard the bars, turns out that I can’t!!!:
I chose this video of this song because I think it’s more dramatic and I can’t believe that it affected as much as it did, correction: as much as it DOES! 17 years later?!!!