Tiny Anecdote — Traffic Light Realization
It’s a cold Friday night in July. For our family, that means take-away for dinner. We’ve decided on Sushi from Sushi Jiro. It’s still a snap-lockdown in Melbourne, and while my husband has been locked up in his home office, I’ve been home-schooling a 6 yr old and a 4 yr old. It’s been a long day, just like most days during the on-again off-again snap lockdowns that carried on in Melbourne for most of 2021.
The hardest thing about a
5 day lockdown in Melbourne
is getting through the tenth and eleventh weeks. https://lockdownstats.melbourne
So it’s 6:30pm, time to get dinner. I hop in the car for the just under 5km drive. Freedom! Usually I drive in silence but today I need some music. I find the dance mix on Spotify and the randomiser lands on Levels by Avicii. Perfect. Let’s bump up the volume!
I settle in to the drive, and start to reminisce on my university days, when my roommate(s) and I bumped up the music (and bass) even for the short drive to the supermarket. Or when we loaded up the CD rack for a road trip from Sacramento to LA. And as I stopped at the red light on Templeton, it hit me like a ton of bricks. That was my life almost 20(!!) years ago. And I’ll never have those days again. I felt tears prick my eyes, and I let one or two fall. The song changed.
I don’t remember what the next song was. But I switched my mental gears and got back to the task at hand: Sushi.
