Life Through Music:"The Good Life"

“Welcome to the good life...”

“Like we always do at this time

I go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky

I g-go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky”

So, life isn’t always about looking deep inside. This week I’m trying to focus more on my progress in general and just where my life is “right now”. Forget about the past and trying to dissect it. Forget about where I will be in 5 years. Lets talk about right now. Lets take sometime to enjoy the hard work that I have done.

“Is the good life better than the life I live?”

I realized last week on my bus ride home that when I look at my life in the big picture I’m doing really well and overall I’m really happy with where my life is right now. Yes, I still have struggles, but why the hell am I really going to let them drag me down. There has been much talk lately in my circle of peeps about the idea of “First world problems”. I mean think of all the little stupid things we complain about and someone else in this world is having real world problems. I don’t want to be one of those people that complains about the petty things that in the bigger picture don’t mean much. I have had the luxury of living in a “first world” instead of a “third world” my entire life and for that I’m truly blessed. 

So lets have fun. This song “Good Life” by Kanye West was an instant hit for me when I got the album day one years ago. Kanye used a sample from the song P.Y.T. by  Michael Jackson in the song and so I was hooked right away. This song always makes me happy and gets me moving. I felt it was very fitting when I heard it while having my revelation on the bus earlier this week. The overall message that spoke to me in this song was in the chorus that says: 

“I’M GOOD” 

Now lets apply this phrase to my life as the check mark to the list that is me. 

My health, I’m really good. 

My dedication to my exercising, I’m really good. 

My eating and tracking my food, I’m doing really good.

My circle of family and friends, I’m really good. 

My winter term in school, I’m good. 

My love life, I’m good. 

Keeping up on my sleep schedule, I’m doing really good.

Winter is on the way out and spring is on it’s way in so I’m good.

This month I’m going to Arizona to see my cousin to celebrate my birthday and the beginning of spring so I’m really good.

I really do have everything I need in my life and more than some have in their entire lifetime. So really...

I’m good. = )

Now from the video and the other lyrics in the song you can definitely tell that Kanye and I have very different views on what is classified as the "good life". In life we all have different ideas of what makes a good life. So take the time to appreciate whatever it is that makes your life so damn good. 

In the song Kanye talks about closing his eyes and imagining the good life. Well, I don’t need to imagine because it’s right in front of me. What good is putting in the work if we don’t take the time to enjoy it. So, lets all take sometime to enjoy the good life. Take a moment to sing and dance along with me...

“Now I, I go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky

Now I, I go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky”

It’s time for all of us to shine as bright as we can. 

As always I bring this to you with love and pure D-lite. = )