I’m trying to get in a rhythm with my winter term and it’s been a bit hard over the first few weeks of the term so far. This is not a complaint, that’s just what it is. So far I’m still loving 2014 very much. Part of my lack of getting in rhythm is all the fun things that I have been doing with great people of late. So, my entry for this week will be a bit shorter than usual because well in a sense I have been out living life and in turn I have less time to write about it.
So, the song that I picked this week came to me when I was on my way to meet a friend to go see a movie. I was walking up to the transit center around 5 o’clock in the evening and I stopped to take notice that it was just so lovely out. I mean it wasn’t like a summer evening that I love so much living in Oregon, but it was definitely a comfortably warm winter evening that was perfect right in that moment. It had been partly cloudy most of the day and really a beautiful day all day long. In this moment, however, there was very little clouds in the sky and even though I was well within the city limits the stars shined bright. As I was walking I just spent that time taking in the evening I noticed wonderful things like the stars above me. Then looking out over highway 26 to the West hills where there are big towers that have many flashing red lights on them. Just the joy of being here. Being able to walk and breath. Then the my song of the week came on over my headphones. It is one that I fell in love with many years ago when it came out, but it seem to match this moment in time for me perfectly.
“You Get What You Give.” by the New Radicals
This song title in itself is a very powerful message and one that I think of often these days. I let many things go in 2013. Some of those were physical things I let go of and that I found new homes for or I just gave back to life (a.k.a. gave to Goodwill) to let life decide where they go next. Besides the physical or material things in life I let go of I have also given other things a chance and because of this I’m starting to get back. Not getting the same things back, but instead making room to get different things and newer experiences.
So, I realized while listening and dancing to this song while I was walking down the street feeling lighter than ever and more free than I ever have been that I’m happy. Happiest that I ever have been, but not as happy as I will ever be because happiness is not a destination it’s an experience. An experience that when you do the right things and put in the work you get to experience happiness more and more. There have been similar moments in my life to the one I’m sharing with you right now, but each one feels better and better. These are the moments that keep me pushing forward in a positive direction. I may not be happy in every moment of my life, but over all I am happy and feeling great.
Lyrics:
"You Get What You Give"
Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age 14 we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please
Fri-enemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes-Benz
First we run and then we laugh till we cry
“But when the night is falling
and you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give”
(Love this part of the song so much. So very true.)
Four a.m. we ran a miracle mile
we’re flat broke but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial
[chorus]
“This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok follow your heart”
(YES, Please do.)
You're in harms way
I'm right behind
Now say youre mine
[chorus]
“Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
Just dont be afraid to leave”
Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion mag shoots
with the aid of 8 dust brothers Beck, Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in!
Don't let go
One dance left
[unsaid lyrics from liner]
“Championed by a soulless media misleading
people unaware they're bleeding
No one with a brain is believing
It's so sad you lost the meaning
Never knew it anyway
Human natures so predictable
I'm a fool to do your dirty work whoa, whoa”
(There is quite a bit of truth in there.)
Oh I love the 90’s music and this song is just one of many from the 90’s that I love. It’s like my comfort music. If there is nothing good playing I can always put on the 90’s music and put a smile on my face. There is a great underlining message of this song to refocus your priorities. I have definitely done that and will always continue to do so. I hope all of you are doing well and finding your own happy moments. There can never be too many of them that is for sure and remember the music is inside of you.
As always I bring this to you with so much love and pure D-Lite. = )
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