It's an interesting piece though I'm not sure if I like it or not. At the moment I read it, I liked it, though after some time from then and now I think it was an okay piece.
It had interesting parts to it, and expresses the teenage hormones of the summer time very well. The pairing up and the fear of what happens between the couple. Though I'm not entirely sure I understand the last part when they say that even after you grow up and get on with your life you will still want to revisit the area? Is it talking about when we are older and will want to revisit the time of freedom to be teenagers and make mistakes while learning how to get along in life?
Maybe it touched me for that moment because I have those moments too when I revisit memories of when I grew up, even went and visited the old trailer park last winter.
The possible reason of it being published could be because that seems to be something that everyone understands, everyone always remembers and sometimes urges to go back to their childhood, even though I'm sure the ones that ended up with children could forget what happened there in the water.
I did try to comment on this last week but had difficulty.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened when you paid a visit to your own past last winter? Your comment made me curious.
It had all changed. I was trying to remember the good things that happened there, and face the things I wish never took place. But the ghosts weren't there to remember or confront. They had completely done a face lift, tore up the hills that saved some from a flood, they took away the playground, the old tree had long sense been stolen from whatever little wilderness remained.
ReplyDeleteThough the place no longer stands I still tried to remember, but perhaps because the location no longer lives makes the memory live inside me a little brighter.