Lent Day 24: Goo Goo

I've only ever watched 'City of Angels' once, but, like Braveheart, I would still say it's one of my favourite films. I will never look at pears in the same way again, and neither will I listen to 'Iris' by Goo Goo Dolls in the same way. Meg Ryan needs to take her bicycle safety more seriously. That movie ripped my heart apart, and the song still does. 

'Iris' is in fact my favourite song. It's also the song I promised one of my best friends from high school that I would sing at her funeral. We were 17 at the time. I wonder if her funeral plans are still the same because those high notes aren't actually in my range. When I made the promise we were invincible, I feel less invincible now. Floey please don't shuffle. 

This evening rather a lot of middle aged Durban people, who are no longer invincible, are sitting having unexpected date nights because our long anticipated Goo Goo Dolls concert has been rained out. 

It's pretty bleak. The playlists have been pumping for months. We know almost all of 'Black Baloon' and 'Slide' is in the bag. 'Iris' is obviously a given. 

I feel we've been robbed of a little walk back in time. A little glimpse of the time when most of us didn't actually know what real love, real heart break and real pain felt like. I was totally ready to be 17 again and totally naive and totally in love with a boy I had glimpsed once at a rugby game. If Nicholas Cage could fall for someone who couldn't even see him surely the same could happen to me. Although I was invisible for other reasons. 

Sadly it is not to be and we will just have to 'give up forever' because the Goo Goo ship has sailed...out Durban Harbour in a deluge of rain. 

On the bright side Stephen and I are already home at 19.00 after a date night of half price sushi. School holidays have begun and I've officially turned my alarm off. I do now actually know how real love feels, I haven't had to sing 'Iris' at any funerals and, unlike Nichlas Cage and my adolescent self, I'm no longer invisible.