Message | Whenever I hear the song "Just Got Lucky", I automatically go back to October 1983 (when I was just 13 years old), and remember the girl whom I really liked at the time, named Karen Campbell.
In fact, when I heard the song "Just Got Lucky" one night on the radio back then, I even imagined spending a day with Karen at a park the following spring (in 1984) at a park in Karen's neighbourhood.
Unfortunately, I had a major problem with shyness back then (and growing up with a mother who was a borderline psychopath who always instigated heated verbal tirades with my father did little to help matters any); and, in the end, I wound up prematurely giving up on my romantic pursuit of Karen.
I only imagine if that girl was someone like Amanda Lofland in Denver, Colorado, USA [I live in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada (suburban Toronto), by the way] back then. The sad reality is I already crossed paths with a similar girl a year before in 1982 named Kim Freeland. If only Kim Freeland could have been able to make me look inside my heart back when I was 12 years old; what a difference it would have made in my life. (But, at least Amanda Lofland finally succeeded in doing this to me, three months before my 40th birthday in March 2010.) |