In my absence, boy has my life changed! No. Nothing drastic has happened, but I've had so many internal changes and I've grown so much. I think that's what I was trying to get out in a few of my previous posts, but couldn't because a lot of things were under-developed, as many things with me are still under-developed...meaning that I can't articulate them just yet. That brings me to this song that's playing.
It's amazing how songs can do things that a regular conversation can't do for and to you. I feel like I have been pulled in a thousand different places with trying to keep up in school, completing this internship, figuring out what I'm going to do about grad/law school, trying to release CoCoTwists from my system and.......being single, living here alone. In conjunction to everything I just mentioned, the holidays are coming and no matter how optimistic I try to be, Thanksgiving is next week and then Christmas and so on. I think it's safe to go ahead and start planning how "I" can make the best of "my" holiday season. So where does this song come in?
I was standing in the mirror in my bathroom tonight and for some reason I started the music that's stored in my cell phone and randomly selected a song from the play list to start the shuffle.
"Everyone falls in love sometimes, sometimes it's wrong and sometimes it's right. For every win, someone must fail, but there comes a point when, when we exhale...."
That opening verse, immediately caught me. For the next 2-3 minutes, I stood over the sink, squinting my eyes a bit..with a soft smile...looking directly into my eyes.
It was as if I could hear the inner most part of my spirit speaking to me and asking the question, "With all of this that is before you, that lays on you...at this point, what can you do?"
Then Whitney...
"All you gotta do is say...shoop shoop shoop shoo be doo shoop shoop"
Seems like the movie, I know, but I simply exhaled and felt a level of contentment. It wasn't a feeling of happiness or sadness to be exact, but almost like a place of surrender. Then the message didn't stop there....
"In your soul there's answers to your prayers, if you're searching for a place you know, a familiar face, somewhere to go...you should look inside yourself..you're half way there.."
By this time, my smile to myself had gone from soft to tender. I wasn't saying to myself, "Now, you're all better.", but it's like I was saying to myself, "Even where you are right now, even with how you feel...it's alright. Feel those feelings, think those thoughts, cry those tears, laugh those laughs, embrace those hugs, pray those prayers and linger and love harder.
I believe that we all will have periods in our lives that aren't necessarily bad, but periods when we're just going through the motions, dying for an anchor of meaning to embrace us and keep us. The only way I know how to get through these periods is by simply riding the waves and although it's not easy, I kinda feel good about it. I just believe that on the other side, in the calmer waters...there's something that I'm sure I'll be all the better for and oh how sweet it's gonna be.
I end this post with this "exhale inducing" piece from the song:
"Sometimes you'll laugh and sometimes you'll cry, life NEVER tells us the whens or whys..."
2 comments:
Being able to exhale is such a good thing, isn't it?
Welcome back!
I listened to this song twice and I lost myself in it. In good ways and bad ways. I just got lost in this song for real!
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