Holy Trip Down Memory Lane

I'm making a mix for my best friend.  It turns out that she and I both are huge fans of 80s alternative music.  As I'm listening to all these songs from the late 80s and early 90s, I'm transported back to my early college years.  I remember  my newfound independence (yay! no more parents!), falling in love....and out of love....and in love....and out of love....I remember the great wide open life I had before me, and all the possibilities it held.  I remember hope, friendship, happiness, and angst.  I wish now I had more photos to document that time in my life; instead, I have precious few snapshots taken with a very cheap point and shoot camera at some parties my friends and I had.  Where, coincidently, we would mostly listen to crazy music like Depeche Mode, the Cure, New Order, the Smiths and later the Stone Roses, Jesus Jones and Red Hot Chili Peppers (yes! they existed before 1995).  OK, OK, I know I'm dating myself.  But that's not the point.  Here is the point:  cherish what you have; hold it tight, and let it guide you as you meander through life.