30 Years Ago

[cbtreks]

It was my senior year in high school. I stayed up all night that night to write a research paper that was due the next day. (Procrastinate? Me?) Earlier in the evening my mom poked her head in to tell me that my cousin E. had just been born. I heard the news about John Lennon a few hours later on the radio. Oddly, I don't remember anymore talk

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[lifefailsme]

LOL on the still procrastinating on the paper due soon still :)

I honestly do not remember when he got shot at all, I dont even remember it on the news, I was 9... yet I remember the 3rd Doctor turning into the 4th some 5 years previously. Go figure.

This post is very insightful and was great to read, thanks :)

[geekmama]

I had just found out I was pregnant with ladymora and my husband and I were at a bowling alley in the valley as we were in a league with some of my co-workers. It was indeed a shock. I was a huge Beatles fan from the first time I saw A Hard Days Night and it seemed unbelievable that John was dead. It had seemed like he was really content for a change, maybe for the first time, and then he was gone.

[bojojoti]

Mr. Bojo and I were newly married. We were in a grocery store when one of Mr. Bojo's high school friends came up and we began talking about Lennon's death. The friend made the insightful comment that their generation had followed much of Lennon's beliefs: they had been angry and rebellious as youths, they settled down and began to forge relationships and have children, and they were maturing. The friend opined it was a shame that Lennon wouldn't lead the generation on.

I don't think my husband's generation needed Lennon's leadership, but his life did mirror that generation. I definitely saw signs that Lennon had mellowed and grown as a person. Instead of blaming the world and specific groups for the messes he saw, Lennon began to see that it wasn't him against the world; he saw that we were one, and we were all part of the issues at hand.