Old Melodies

It was an eerily awesome Friday night in 1983. I was grounded, but my parents were out of town so I was up to some mischief. I had talked everyone at home into seeing the movie Eddie and the Cruisers (on opening night!), and I had devised a clever plan to run into my friends who were surprisingly at the same movie (can you believe it?!). I can still recall feeling a wild and powerful energy coursing through my body as we walked across the parking lot toward the theater. Back then, I thought it came from being excited that I was getting away with something, but now I see the more simple truth: I was feeling the phenomenal rush of energy that comes with manifesting my beliefs in real time. I was instantly busted (of course) – but moments later, I was exactly where I wanted to be – sitting in the theater surrounded by my friends, watching a movie I had been dying to see. Even though the adults in the room saw right through my plan, I can still recall feeling a deep sense of gratitude that it had all worked out so well. I can also remember how completely unfamiliar that felt from my regularly self-centered and defensive outlook. I was just shy of 15, living in a world of epic self-absorption and tight parental control. I fully believed that if my parents had been there, I would have been sent to the car while they watched the movie. Looking back now, is that really what would have happened? I can’t be sure…

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