Life Through Music: "The Aviator" by K-os

I have spent a lot of time looking at my imperfections over the last few months. This can be very taxing on the soul for sure, but I think that is totally part of the process for me. The process in which I continue making a better me. 

I had lots of ambition to start off the year to take my health to the next level and then with the loss of my mother things got all screwed up. Her death definitely put my plans on hold. I didn’t quite fall off the wagon I had been riding towards better health, but there was many times were I was barely holding on. 

Lately, I have made a big push to get back in motion and I have done a good job to set myself up for reentry into my path that is filled with health goals. I’m tracking my food again and I have added quite a bit of exercise activities to help this out. This term I'm taking two P.E. type classes. One is called Core fitness and the other is Flag Football. The Flag football is more of a fun class for me, but the Core Fitness class is no joke. The teacher in the Core Fitness class is kicking my heine in a good way. I asked for it and so now I’m put to the test. How I will I respond to the things that I asked for? So far I have taken both classes head on as a typical aries does. It’s hard work to be sure, but the reward is so great. Its only been a few weeks an I feel great already. I also have been going for a long run on mondays and riding my bike more consistently to and from work. 

The song that fits my push on getting back to me is a song by the artist K-os and it is called “The Aviator”. Really it is the chorus that speaks the most to me, but lets take a look and see if there is other words in the lyrics that I connect to. 

"The Aviator"

I walk a mile in my own shoes 

Crown the king, in the name of the father 

Let the sermon begin, hail observant again 

Watchin my mind spin 

Watchin how time can turn enemies into friends 

And friends to enemies, why did he envy me? 

Is it because I M.C. breakin in social scenes? 

How do you mean? 

Of course I miss em 

But I had to diss em all, cuz self-hating's not my mission 

Nope 

"I'm just a man 

Doin the best he can 

Doin the best he can 

I'm just a man 

I might fall short 

But I look a unseen hand 

Look a unseen hand 

Look a unseen hand 

I'm just a man 

Doin the best he can 

Doin the best he can 

I'm just a man 

I might fall short 

But I look a unseen hand" 

Yea, sometimes I ask myself 

I ask late at night: 

Who am I using? 

Who is abusing? 

Who is he choosing? 

Who am I sleeping on that im confusing? 

Who is my muse? 

(I do actually ask a lot of questions late at night. Some like the ones he lists and some that are more in depth.)

She probably plays the guitar 

Probably forth dimension, or probably liven large 

So many scars, young black boy in my room 

Made my style animated call my style cartoon 

That cha bump 

When your drivin up the coast line 

Your closed mine exposed by the sunshine 

Designed, by the most hot 

"I'm just a man 

Doin the best he can 

Doin the best he can 

I'm just a man 

I might fall short 

But I look a unseen hand 

Look a unseen hand 

Look a unseen hand 

I'm just a man 

Doin the best he can 

Doin the best he can 

I'm just a man 

I might fall short 

But I look a unseen hand" 

Do the hustle 

Rain down on me 

Rain down on me

Really it is the chorus that hit me in this song. I just need to keep on going doing the best that I can as I fly my way through this thing called life. 

I’m just trying to do the best that I can everyday. Learning from my mistakes and also focus on the things that I did well. Understanding your strengths and your weaknesses is very helpful thing to do in your life. Maybe...just maybe I have been harder on myself than I should be. I working hard to find a balance between pushing my self to the next level, but also stay away from beating myself up. I'm a work in progress. 

The P.E. classes I have taken are definitely helping me to do that. Basically get back on that horse and do the work Derrick Heine. It’s time. 

As always I hope everyone is doing great and if not putting in the work to do great things. 

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