Music and life.

I like music.  I really only like music that you can sing with.  In the car today I was listening to Harry Chapin.  The CD that I was listening to had a song Remember When the Music.  It took me down memory lane.  It is about a much easier time.  It mentioned a more joyful time.  It was about a time that we had dreams.  Obviously, when we were all younger. 

It’s true.  As young people we all spent time dreaming about our future.  I’m sure that we all dreamed about traveling, jobs, spouses, kids.  Anything and everything.  We all were dreamers.  Maybe it is a rite of passage to adulthood.

The Harry Chapin CD also had the song Taxi on it.  The song is about, for those of you who don’t know, a taxi driver who picks up a girl he dated in school.  She dreamed of being an actress and he was looking for the sky.  The song ends with the lyrics …” And, here she’s acting happy inside her handsome home, and me I’m flying in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned.”

A sequel was written to that song with the setting Harry, the taxi driver, is a successful musician and stops to see Sue, the gal.  He finds out that she was separated and working.  They talk about how they have always walked away from each other. 

The two songs talk about the dreams of their youths.  In Taxi, their lives didn’t work out the way they thought they would.   They kept growing and eventually found a place for themselves that enabled them to be content. 

Contentment is in my opinion what allows happiness.  Contentment gives us the ability to stop chasing rainbows and enjoy life and family and everything important in our lives. 

As I said at the beginning of this blog, I like music.  I should say that I like music that I can sing along with.  I’m far too old to listen to what I refer to as “head banging” music. 

Enjoy your day.