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Back To The Future Day!

Today is Back To The Future Day.  Or so I've been told by numerous people throughout my day.

Fun.  I'm fairly sure everyone has seen all three movies.  If you haven't.  I mean... How have you not?  But I suppose it's possible.  Well in the second movie when he goes into the future, he goes to today: October 21st 2015.  So, this is 'the future'.  Well anyways... A quick little true story.

So, when my grandparents were alive they lived up in Montecito, California.  They had a house on East Mountain Drive.  When I went to visit them when I was 14 we went to the beach one day and then driving back we got behind Doc (Christopher Lloyd).  So there we were driving behind him.  Since my grandparents were basically neighbors of his they did a quick wave at one another.  I'll never forget that.

He actually didn't live on the exact same street.  He was a street off of East Mountain Drive called Coyote Road.  They shared backyards.  By backyards I mean backmoutainsides.  Basically my grandparents and his house didn't actually have a backyard.  They have like a ravine behind the house that goes down and then comes back up to the next house.  That's California for ya.  Lots of mountains. So anyways yeah you could see the back of his house from my grandparents house.

I think there was like a famous author that lived there too but I forget which one.  He was like famous but not.  Like supermarket check out books famous.

Well the house has since been sold and belongs to someone new now.  They lived there for a long while and before that, when the original Back To The Future came out, they lived in the Pacific Palisades on Surfview Drive right off the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway), all the way at the very top of the street.  Last house on the street as a matter of fact.  We used to swim in their pool just about every Sunday as little kids.  Both houses had views that were absolutely astonishing.  Just mountainside southern California looking out to the Pacific Ocean.  My grandmom was all about art and sculptures and paintings.  SO she had TONS of paintings and sculptures.  I can still picture both houses in my mind and the artwork in every area and every part of the house as well as the outside house.

I think it would be fun to kind of "go back in time" and maybe one day drive to both of those houses just to see what they look like now.  I wouldn't like knock on the door, that would be weird.  But I'd probably kind of maybe just drive up and have a looksee from the road.  Maybe just admire the view of the ocean and relive the memories I have of my grandparents.  I miss them a lot... So yeah.  I don't know... that could be kind of tough.  But, good memories so not all that tough.

I often wonder what it would be like to go back in time, just chat with people from our past.  Family members.  Or friends.  Maybe make some changes.  I guess there's no way of knowing how a change in the past would change the present or the future.  Plus, if I change something from my past that involves another person, it would alter their present now.  And lets say they were super happy with how things in their life were now.  By me changing something and changing their path in life I'd alter their life as it is right now.  Seems kind of selfish of me to change the past.  They say everything happens for a reason.  Most of the time I can't make much sense of that reason... But I just go with it.  I figure eventually one day, it will somehow all make sense.  For now I just live in the moment of today.  Yesterday gives us memories and tomorrow gives us hope, or something like that.