HBO's blockbuster this evening was American Reunion. Watching it was sort of on my list since a few days, but only during the movie I realized that actually 14 years have passed since 1999, when American Pie was popular amongst high school graduates and young students like myself. My own graduation had been in 1994, so my level of identification was still high then. Even more so with this follow up movie, still in the same Jewish American style of humor, that oscillates between getting laid and getting laid. Life rolls on, we get jobs, we enter partnerships, break up, have children, buy a house, take up a loan, etc. and life seems to roll on faster and faster.
When I turned off the TV, I was left with a sort of sadness. I think the reason is that the movie had built up a vacuum between the good mood and the moving on. Being reminded of 1999, how everything was then in my own life, and how much everything, every aspect has changed since then. Life was still easy then. No responsibilities, no obligations, no too hard duties. I wonder if life can become better, or if everything gets just more complicated, until we are not able to manage and fade out.

walking on top of Moganshan on a meandering stone path
a breeze whips the bamboo leaves like waves across a green ocean;
memory weighs heavy like the humid air that year.
not my body does now falter,
it is the past that makes me old;
if I would still be young,
my mind would be blank like the sky on a clear day;
I would run out into this world
yearning for impressions to fill the void.
now, coming of age, I hardly move on,
because wherever I roam memory comes into my way.