It was "way back when" (I'm not sure when it became necessary not to mention actual dates but there it is) that I won a dance contest to the Beatles song "Hey Jude". I was attending one of my first boy and girl birthday parties and this song came on. We were all invited to dance for a "dance contest". I can remember it like it was yesterday (even though I sometimes cant remember my own phone number). I was dancing with a guy named Brian and he was wearing a plaid shirt. Not the lumberjack kind of plaid shirt but the preppy kind. The dancers were eliminated one by one until there was only Brian and me and voila! I was the winner. My daughter has taken a sudden interest in the Beatles (she watched Across the Universe, if you havent seen it you probably should) and she has now decided this is her favorite song. What she doesnt realize is the type of memory this song dredges up and I've told her about the Brian/Dance Contest memory (she swears at least a dozen times - she's 14, get my meaning?). It reminds me of the feelings I felt way back then of what was to be and the endless possibilities I had before me. I look back now and think about all the wasted time and its truly hard not to cry. I've done so many wonderful things in my life I tell myself - I've been to so many places, places other people only dream about their whole lives. But there are so many things I didnt do and that I so wanted to. So wherever you are in your life, WAKE UP! Kick your own butt and get out there and do those things, because before you know it, you'll be at a place in your life where you look back and have regrets.
Listen to someone who knows...
Hey jude, dont make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then youll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.
Get out there and make YOUR LIFE a better one!!
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