Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It’s Blitz - Interscope, 2009

In high school, I had a friend named Martha. She had curly hair, tons of freckles and was officially the crabbiest person I knew. But I loved Martha and considered her a close friend. Even after high school, we spent a decent amount of time together, her and my wife got along really well and I thought that she could be one of those lifelong friends. But by our mid twenties, hanging out was becoming awkward and a bit forced. We never talked about it. We just grew apart. I still think about Martha from time to time. I’ll pop open her Facebook and see what’s new in her life. I’m O.K. with how things between us turned out, but it was kind of tough to get through. The hardest part of it may have been realizing that we just can’t control certain aspects of our lives. We naturally go through a progression of connecting points, pushing and pulling, shaping us into adults. Now married, with two kids, I’m “all grown up” (so to speak). I know who I am and I feel like I’m starting to understand my place on earth. But sometimes…I like to go back and remember what it was like to be a kid and it makes me want to slam growingup’s head in a door.