My Music Journal: June 4, 2025

 

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

 

Time: 5:26 PM

Song: The Logical Song 

Artist: Supertramp

Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle on the way home from work.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2IOeOJyiuzwF8BRAK9jJyj?si=a05d7ac6b6f746ae

 

I remember there being a point in my school career where I wished I could go back to third grade. There was something about that grade that was so wonderful. Better, apparently, then whatever grade I was in at that point. Heck, maybe it was fourth grade. 

 

I remember having these thoughts. 

 

I don’t remember what was so great about third grade, or what was so bad about the time I was thinking this. 

 

It’s entirely possible that eventually I spent time wishing to go back to the grade I was then thinking was bad. 

 

I think that’s the thing with memory. It’s probably why thirty percent of the country wants to return to a time before this, but usually can’t name what time that was. Or, if they do, it conveniently erases things that were bad in that era, likely because it wasn’t happening to them personally. 

 

It’s fiction. That golden past. There were good times. There were bad times. And, both were likely happening simultaneously. 

 

It’s all about what you put in your head. I try not to linger on the bad, nor let it stay in my head for long. I just try to temper the nostalgia with the reality that not everything was perfect then either. Possibly, and likely, not even better than the present. 

 

During last night’s Write On meeting we discussed a passage from Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” 

 

The man tells his son: “Just remember that the things you put in your head are there forever.” 

 

A few lines later, he says, “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” 

 

I’m not sure there’s much logic in what I’ve just written. In fact, it’s contradictory in parts. It’s a ramble.