I'm wearing out the new song
"biggest t-shirt"
by Avery Anna
written by
Avery Anna, Lori McKenna, Chris McKenna, Colin Healy
woo hoo
It’s a song that allows you to “sit in your feelings”…
but I suppose you could also drive.
Sometimes driving and reflecting is cool too.
As I listened to “biggest t-Shirt”…
it made me reflect on daze gone by.
anywhooo…
My roommate my freshman year of college and I were the byproduct of
an “arranged match.”
We were put together by our parents.
My parents had good friends whose relatives
were her parents and so
instead of rolling the random roommate dice…
we hedged our bets and went for the safest roll.
At least she was vetted.
We didn't have the luxury of checking each other out on Facebook.
Instead, we met face-to-face on move-in day in our dorm room.
We were a good match,
as far as roommates go.
We got along….
no problems…no issues.
We were friendly…
studied in the room together,
chatted about our day and
occasionally went to the dining hall together.
I had made friends with other girls on my floor and
I assumed she did too.
She often talked about high school and her friends and family from home.
She started going home on weekends…
I looked at it as time that I had the room to myself.
After class she would come back to the room and put on her bathrobe.
I don’t always notice things…
but I I did take note that it was the afternoon and
she was walking around in her fuzzy pink bathrobe.
It was a cute robe…
but it was also the middle of the day.
After her freshman year she left college and
went to a school closer to her home.
Looking back now after decades of life…
I’m pretty sure she was extremely homesick and
didn’t feel comfortable being at school.
Her fuzzy pink bathrobe was her
“biggest t-shirt."
It was her refuge…
her safe space;
a place to hide from her insecurities.
I’m guessing her bathrobe gave her the
big warm hug
that she needed.
If I was smarter back then and
not the clueless freshman that I was….
I would have given her a big hug.
I could have given her that big hug.
I wish I was smarter.
Sometimes songs make us think…
and this song did that for me
and
thanks to you
Avery Anna
I’m wearing out…
"biggest t-shirt."
