Wind of Change

Music speaks to my soul. So often I find that the music that spins round and round in my head, is tied directly to the what is going on in my life. A more accurate statement may be that it reflects my attitude about the events I am watching unfold from day to day.

Awhile back I posted a blog siting Outshined (Soundgarden) ... there has been one that made referance to Scars (Papa Roach) ... there have been many other songs that have dominated the last several years of my life and in large part they have delt with pain and loss and general confusion ... basically they have delt with struggle.

I have been reflecting lately. So much has changed in my life over the last year or so. There has been a resurection of my hopes and dreams. In many ways I am so much happier than I ever imagined possible. The biggest struggle as of late is stopping myself from "worrying that this is all some dream". I am slowly learning to stop worrying about the other shoe dropping, and embrace the day.

I have the most gorgeous, incredible, amazing wife in the world. I have the most amazing children (4 to be exact) to watch grow and learn and become young adults. I find myself for the first time in a very long time firmly excited about life and what it has to offer.

I have some new songs floating around in my head and dominating my thoughts these days. Below is one that has been firmly planted in my head for about 2 weeks now by Kris Allen. The song is titled ... Live Like We're Dying ... and shouldn't we all do a little more of that? Afterall ... Life is not about the minutes you were given, its about what you did with those minutes ... at the end of the day.


Sometimes we fall down, can't get back up
We're hiding behind skin that's too tough
How come we don't say I love you enough
Till it's to late, it's not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come
And we could make a feast from these crumbs
And we're all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you,
What would you wish you would've done

CHORUS:
Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given
If this is all we got and we gotta start thinking
If every second counts on a clock that's ticking
Gotta live like we're dying

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying


And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye
Should be so careful who we live out our lives
So when we long for absolution,
There'll no one on the line, yeah


CHORUS (X2)


You never know a good thing till it's gone
You never see a crash till it's head on
Why do we think we're right when we're dead wrong
You never know a good thing till it's gone

CHORUS (x2)