Category: Music

From: Mom and Dad

Inspiring music is all around. A good, soul touching song could just be thing to get you moving. Michael Jackson’s song, Man in the Mirror, affects me greatly. It reminds me that I alone am responsible for my actions or inactions. I alone take the burden of my expectations and shake them off when it comes to change.

If you listen to the lyrics you hear a pleading among someone’s own thoughts. It’s an internal discussion and debate as to whether changing is worth it.

This song motivated me to start my weight loss and the part that always gets me, I am tearing up as I write this in the library, is:

Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change

To me it doesn’t mean look at yourself visually, but internally. Don’t like what you see, change it.

What also gets me is at the 5 minute mark of the video. We’re all here to help you, Cassie.

(Ok, I had to fake a sneeze, so I could wipe my eyes.)

From: Mom and Dad

There are songs that remind me life is transient and disposed to stopping when we least expect or want it to.

Sounds depressing, but it is very liberating. When you understand that to have life you must have death, it clarifies your thinking and allows you to make decisions in the moment.

Shooting Star was a band in the 1970s from Missouri. I have no idea if they have other songs that achieved any popularity, but Last Chance is the one I know.

Pay not attention to the story about the aliens or whatever, but focus on the words last chance. There are many metaphors in the song demonstrating the abruptness of life; the timidness in which some people choose to move.

Don’t let this happen to you. It would be silly to dwell on the transient nature of life, but keep it in mind when you make decisions.