Wish You Were Here was the title track on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album of the same name.  In 2011, the song was ranked No. 324 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  The track and David Gilmour, 67 today, 62 during this video (I think), both timeless wonders. (Source: Wiki)

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“His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.

You know what people think. They see jeans too short and winter coat too shiny, too grimy, and think, homeless. They watch a credit card emerge from those jeans and think, grifter. They behold a frozen grin, hear a string of strangled, tortured pauses, and think, slow. Stupid.

You learned too young about cruelty and pity. You learned too young that explaining yourself didn’t help, that it made things worse. People laughed. Made remarks. Backed away. So you stopped explaining. You got a job, got a cat, got an apartment, and people can think what they want to think. You built a life without…