I was driving in the car yesterday and John Lennon’s “Imagine” came on the radio. And as I listened, I felt a pang in my chest. And I realized, no, it wasn’t the cranberry orange scone I had for breakfast. It was because I was still hurting over his untimely death. After all these years. It still bothered me.

And it got me to thinking about all the things in my life that I have never fully gotten over. We all have them. Things/events that no matter how positive and zen we are about them, we never completely move past. Here’s my list.

 

TEN THINGS I’LL NEVER COMPLETELY GET OVER

1. John Lennon’s untimely death

2. That I never got to experience natural childbirth

3. 4 decades of cramps followed by 3 decades of menopause. Whassup with that?!

4. The fact that the same guy who wrote “Fragile”  is buddies with Howard Stern

5. That I’ll never again be able to hold my daughter in a tiny bundle to my chest

6. The betrayal of a good friend

7. The end of “The Shield” – I still get the occasional “Mac” jones

8. The unfairness of a universe that would give Stephen Hawking such a brain and then trap it in such a body.

9. My brother John moving away

10. Missing all those years with my dad

 

Those are mine. What’s on your list?