An October Morning

Early in the morning, after gym and Starbucks, I drove over to Walmart to buy a few food items. The store was huge, sprawling out in all directions; but customers were few in the early hours of the day. With coffee in hand, I walked around and got everything I needed. 

Suddenly I felt like the experience and the surroundings were very familiar. I felt like I was back in the mid-seventies. It was the same lonely shopper – me – but younger, a 20-year old foreign student from Hong Kong instead of a local retiree living in Aurora. It was the K-Mart instead of the Walmart. Same layout, same foreign looking shoppers – the average Canadians – here and there. To make the experience of the seventies more real, I even started humming John Denver’s Annie’s Song. 

Nostalgia struck when it was most unexpected. Life is like a circle. Before we know it, the circle is swirling close to its last few rounds….