Hello Journal,
I know in my mind that dreams sometimes don't come true, sometimes they do... I had just come back from Hershey park, I was tired from all the walking, and powered down around 8:57pm.
That's where my dreams begin. I was out like a light.
Then I saw this white hole. I said: "Ok, where's this going to take me..." I hopped out of bed and guess where I was? My old house on 4343 Eldone Road.
I looked around the old basement, where my mom was taking care of the clothes, and my brother and I were watching Saturday Morning Cartoons. I said: "Ok, this is goofy, why am I here?"
I sit on the couch downstairs and sure enough, my younger self sees me and waves hello. My brother Matt looks back and says: "Josh, who were you waving at." Younger self says: "That man on the couch right there! He looks like me!" Matt says, "You're nuts, there's no one there."
Ok, now where was Kira and my dad?
I walk upstairs to the kitchen and before I go to the dining room. I look right outside at the playground that brought a whole lot of memories... The swings... The yellow tube with the holes... Mom wouldn't let me go over there because she was afraid I'd get hurt.
I went to the dining room and Kira's in there with her coloring book, humming, and smiling. I said: "This is really nuts."
The old living was the just the way I pictured it. You had the steps that led to the bathroom and the 2 bedrooms. There was the other couch with the trinitron TV (16 channels everyone...). I'm guessing dad was taking a nap or something. So I sat outside the doorstep when the door for a few trying to decode and decipher everything. But the door was beating up against me. Dad was right behind me trying to get it open. I moved and he got it open.
He says: "I guess this door needs to be replaced."
I said: "I guess it does."
I see our old gray Vista... Sure enough, there's the gold Oldsmobile... I'm still wondering why I am still here.
I go down the alleyway to the backyard and see some of our neighbors and their children around. We were hanging out with our friend Tiffany and having water balloon fights.
Sure enough, my old self comes up to me and says: "Hey Mister, who are you anyway, you look me, I don't know if you sound like me... Where are you from?"
I said: "I'm you in 2013, I'm 26 years old, I work a government job..."
He says: "Government job!? that's what my dad does!!!"
I said: "Yeah, dad still does. Mom's still as great as ever, cooking up those Macaroni and Cheese meals we love so much... But on special occasions. Kira got married to a guy named Brian, has a kid named Blake... Matt got married to a girl named Stephanie... No kids yet, but I hope they have a few sooner or later... and me, I can honestly tell you, I'm not married, but I got this really nifty girlfriend named Joanna. We've gone on a lot of adventures together and things are well between us."
He says: "Oh boy, wait until I tell the others!"
I said: "But you listen to me boy, you do good in this world... You'll break up with a few girls... You'll do this... you'll do that... It's a long story... And even though you are how old?"
He says: "4"
I said: "Geez, I am old... Anyway... Pay attention in school... You're smart like I am and that IQ of 130 I possess? You got it too. I'm not going to give you a book to the future or anything like so. But, just know, that you are going to be really knowledgeable at sports and want a sportscasting job."
He says: "What's that..."
I said: "You know how dad listens to Orioles games on the radio?"
He says: "Yeah, he wants a football team too. Our team got taken away before I was born."
I said: "Well, that's what you are going to want to be when you grow to be me. And don't worry, we have a football team here again."
He says: "REALLY!?"
I said: "Yep, the Baltimore Ravens. We've won two super bowls already. We just won it this past year too. We have some of the best fans around."
Matt walks up and says: "Josh, who are you talking with, why are you talking to yourself again?"
He says: "Matt Matt... I heard the future from my future self!!!"
Matt says: "Mom, I thought you were going to cut down on his citrus juice intake." Matt leads me back inside to the basement.
Then I remembered citrus juice... We all loved citrus juice. Dad loved making that for us. As I walked away. I heard Kira scream: "BRIAN!? WHO'S BRIAN!?" Did she really think she was going to marry one of the members of New Kids on The Block?
I said: "She'll know eventually but for now, she's too young."
That house brought a lot of memories back... but then I remembered my friend's house across the way from our house and his bedroom, the smell... Oh nevermind, I'm not going in there. He liked cows. I even remember his birthday party too.
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Dreams to me are like home movies. You can pick and choose what you want to see in life. According to references, scientists say a dream only lasts but 6 seconds, but the truth is, they last a heck of a lot longer than that.
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What can I remember?
- My brother not letting me read that inspector gadget book he always took out
- My sister liking that one book but I don't remember that title. Something about huggins and kissins. Anyway, who cares, good reading.
- The basement where all of our toys were and the nintendo.
- Citrus juice. Yep, I liked citrus juice.
- The christmases at our house after we got home from the late services at church.
- My favorite boxes of cereal
- The gray boots my brother had
Just so many memories.
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Yes, I know my family will probably read this and get a little freaked out. But don't you see? You can go back to childhood and live it. Trouble is, you just can't go back in time and fix it.
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"Until the next post, I'm signing off..."
~ Joshua
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