Spring makes me Nostalgic

The days that are continuously warm after a string of cold days makes me really nostalgic. This past weekend has been really nice. Super sunny at 76 degrees all around and it was the first time since Fall quarter that I could go to class with a t-shirt and possibly shorts if I wanted to. This weather really makes me nostalgic and even more so because I saw a lot of high school friends that I wouldn't normally see unless it was break.

I had a dream last night and it was that Tina and Felix visited school, which is weird because he goes here haha, but in my dream he didn't go here. It was nice to see him and Tina again because it really was like old times with old... selves. I miss our high school days. I miss hanging out with Andrea and going to library together after school to study for a bit and then waiting until my mom came. That was really nice of her. I'm really glad I got to come up to Irvine to visit her and everybody else. I'm sorry I'm not really naming anybody else here except her because if it wasn't for her, I'd probably not visit. And it doesn't mean that everybody in Irvine that I visited isn't that special, you are all special, but the only reason why I specifically went for her was because of my nostalgia feeling.

I remember back in the summer of 8th grade going onto 9th grade. It was one of the best and worst times I've had in my life, but let's focus on the great times. I had become really close friends with Pedro and Andrea. Andrea because somehow, she was the connection that I had made and then I got to know everybody in the circle of her friends and later became my friends in high school and also because she was literally my first great friend that wasn't a boy. At the time, I thought it was so super interesting to be able to talk to a beautiful girl and not be nervous, only because I was very very VERY shy around girls at the time, but not somehow, not her. Pedro because well we're pretty much brothers and we continually hung out in the summer almost I'd like to say everyday although it probably wasn't. But it was extremely frequent and it was the best.

You know what's crazy though? That nostalgia feeling first occurred to me 6 years ago. Can you believe it? 6 years... 4 years in high school and 2nd year in college. It's crazy isn't it? How that time passed, how many memories we've accumulated over the years, the time that we've spent with our best friends. Think back... 6 years ago. What did you do? Think back to a time when you were with the bestest of your friends and you had a nostalgia feeling like mine and you would just hang out with them, and it was special to me because it was the transition of my independence.

The nostalgia feeling is most defined when we all decided to go to verde together and hang out as a group of friends. We'd go to Maivy's house, play a little bit of Halo, perhaps Monopoly, wait for more people to show up. Walk to the Cal train station under the hot blistering heat of the sun. Wait for the cal train to come, get on it and take it to mountain view downtown, just one stop from where we were. Get out and walk to verde. And I remember their old chicken and pmt. Their old bags too.. it was white with a blue ship on it and oh man the chicken back then was incredibly oily but super tasty. Also the inside of the building was super super GREEN and had small tables and chairs.

And back to nostalgia... I felt most nostalgic on one special point, before I would walk to Maivy's because we literally lived right next to each other, maybe an 1/8th of a mile. Our complexes were just big but otherwise we were right there next ot each other. And I remember I would walk outside and I would feel a reallly warm summer breeze and there would be leaves on the ground and I would just walk down the stairs really really slowly and just take all the warm breeze in and just stand there thinking it would be an awesome great day. And when I came back, I walked up the steps, turned around and looked at the changing sun from a bright light to a more mellow and soft yellow-orange thinking, today, I made a lot of great memories and it was incredibly fun. I hope I can always do this.

And it hit me because it was that time of the year again of nostalgia and it made me think of that moment, I felt that warm breeze when I went to visit everybody on Saturday and I got to see an old face, and how it was the same face, in a way, 6 years later.