Five Years Until Now
I left the office Friday night …
I got to the parking garage …
Plopped myself in my car …
Drove circles and circles working my way outta the structure …
Flashed my card over the card reader thingie …
Turned left … right …
Instead of left … left.
The right turn took me back towards
Downtown.
Past the bars and the walking route I used to take …
Just five years ago.
And there were people …
Doing what I used to do five years ago.
Walking in groups, walking as couples, laughing … looking forward to the night.
And that got me thinking …
Just how much has changed …
In these last five years.
Many people I used to hang out with five years ago … are not even around any more.
I was married,
Hottie was married.
Shaft was my best bud, but we hadn’t even begun thinking about starting our own firm.
There were two other people in the world … with the name Joe Hairdy … my namesakes … soon … only my Dad will remain.
My paternal grandparents were both alive.
Everyone in my immediate family was healthy.
No one had any clue I was a transsexual.
I only suspected it.
I was flush with boy testosterone …
And I didn’t know the difference between mascara and eyeliner.
I can only imagine in another five years …
Things will be completely different …
Totally changed …
Again.
It kinda freaks me out thinking about it.
Wild. 🙂
do you mean, like,
you were on the right track,
and somebody pushed you out of the train?
i saw a new yorker cartoon several months ago:
two guys at a bar,
and one of them asks the other,
“Where do you see yourself
getting drunk five years from now?”