By: Zack Rosenfeld
Editor-in-Chief
For those who can’t bear to hear another one of my nostalgic rants, here is the last.
From the days of running around in my “Winnie the Pooh” shirts and watching endless amounts of cartoons, to driving around town and morning shaves, the last 18 years have been memorable.
It’s tough to accept after today I will be walking away from the place that provided so many great memories and inspirational colleagues along the way. It has not only been a privilege, but also an honor to work with everyone on this staff.
Although many things have changed, there has been one main constant throughout my life: Bruce Springsteen. Yes, those of you who know me well are probably letting out a sigh, but from the time I was a little kid hearing “Born to Run” resonating throughout my house to attending the Sports Arena last month to see the Boss live, Springsteen has stayed with me.
My case of “Brucitis” started when I was a toddler and my parents would play Bruce though out the house. For me, it was just loud rock and roll at a time when life was simple. Go to school, draw some pictures, watch cartoons and then fall asleep with the assurance that Mommy and Daddy were keeping the monsters away at night.
Then came high school. One could say I was a little kid in the big city coming into Mira Costa. I would walk into the bright lights of room six with ambitions of one day becoming editor-in-chief, but the intimidation of disgusting floors and photoshopped faces was pretty intense.
It was after my junior year when I began to mature and listened to more than just the sounds of Springsteen’s music. From influential conversations with my dad and enlightening lectures from Bob Fish and Pam Jenning, I began to understand thematic concepts better, especially in music.
At the same time, making this transition from childhood to adulthood isn’t easy. For me, this transition is like stepping into a dark room. Before someone turns on the lights I don’t know what to expect.
In the past couple months I’ve been struggling with this fact of life until I came across “Darkness on the Edge of Town.” “Darkness” is a song about transitions in life while maintaining the values attained in your hometown, explains “darkness” as a symbol for uncertainty and the unknown and the idea of the “edge of town” being the values attained from growing up.
As I step into this proverbial darkness, I thank you not because of the great memories we had in the depths of the night in room six or hanging out at the beach in the blazing heat. I thank you because I now I have the tools needed due to those who have made an impact on my life.
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