it was simpler before

its the new year so here's a toast to before. a toast to holding hands with no implications, hugs that didn't have to mean anything, smiles that didn't get dissected and analyzed to death by all your enemies and friends. here's a toast to talking with someone of the opposite sex without someone else having a major cow, and to friends that aren't focused on how big, or how much, or how many times you did or didn't do what they would have. a toast for all those times you could talk without hormones being an issue. a toast to simpler pleasures, like breaking a cookie instead of a nail, getting a valentine from a friend, putting on clothes you like not clothes they like you in. or out. a toast to a time when cool was the water in the fountain, not the way he looks. a toast to simpler times, simpler relationships, simpler friends. a toast to before.