Nostalgia

Things We Say:
"Imaging the future is a kind of nostalgia" - John Green (Looking For Alaska)


Blurb In My Brain:
It's always strange looking at life through someone else's point of view. Let me explain.

Tonight I went with my father to the Newly Restored Peabody Opera house. This used to be the old Kiel Opera house in downtown St. Louis. My dad and his father used to sell tickets in the St. Louis area for basically all the major events (The Opera House, what is now the Scott Trade Center, the convention center, and all the events downtown). So, the old Kiel Opera house is a familiar place for my father. And so tonight was the grand reopening after it's been remodeled.

They were showing some movie on the Prohibition that is going to be on PBS next month, but we really didn't buy tickets to see the movie, we got tickets to see the building. And let me tell you, they just don't make buildings like they used to. I could tell that Dad was just retracing old steps, and he expected his dad to come around the corner at any moment.

Of course, my dad spent the whole time bitching about the new changes to the box office, the terrible window designs and the new carpeting, but there was also a lot of laughter. Reminiscing about the nights when he would leave at 2am with a suitcase full of $60,000 like he was some kind of mobster, or having every key to the building, and taking my mother up to the roof to watch the fireworks at the arch. As we were walking out of the building, my dad turned to take another look at the building and says in a small voice "This is where I was really happy"

It made me wonder what places I'll want to revisit and think "Yeah, this is where I was truly happy" and it makes me wonder about how different my life will be without my dad.

Anyway, these are my deep pondering thoughts for the evening.

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