midnight train to geogia
midnight train to georgia is one of those road songs that became so popular in the 70’s with the rise of a motown group, the temptations. it was originally sung by gladys knight and i never got the chance to hear it till i watched the eliminations night of american idol last year. being a fan of soul/ rhythm and blues, i was really drawn to the melody. but lately, i’ve figured out that the lyrics is so compelling that it’s kinda appropriate to what i am undergoing right now. i think the song speaks so much of the important decisions i will be making in the next few weeks. there are things in life that are not really meant for me though i have tried so hard to get them. as the song suggests, there are dreams that are not meant to come true even if i have pawned up all my hopes and efforts. it would be proper to buy the one-way ticket back to the life i once knew, to a simpler place and time…to continue my journey despite the loss…
looking back to those things that had happened in the past years have urged me to reflect once again and pray the serenity prayer: "lord grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change things i can and the wisdom to know the difference…"
hope i have made the right choice…and i just have to live with it.
(to hear this song, please see my profile…a live performance of jasmine trias, singing "midnight train to georgia")
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my spiritual director told me that in every step we take, we make decisions…and i believe that it will always be a trial and error, make or break scheme…yet in the end, there’s a feeling of serenity especially if we have learned to own them, despite the dichotomy. as jim sollisch would put it concretely; "there’s one thing which most of us never learn: TO FOLLOW OUR HEART, not other people’s expectations…"
a friend told me that happiness is just temporary and we should indulge ourselves until it decides to leave us…i think he has a point, but pondering on this fact, i want to argue that our purpose in life is not just to be happy…we have this interminable search for meaning…and if we have finally get a grip of our existence, we will have the strength to face the extraordinary and the mundane…
another friend told me that his best bud has changed over the years…they don’t share the same sentiments anymore and it made him sad…he thinks that he has lost him completely…oh well, i affirm the fact that people change…but it teaches us a lesson on relationship- that there’s no point in coming up with so much expectations from those we love…and it is still best NOT TO ASSUME AT ALL…the more we nag from them, the more we get hurt…for just like anything else in this world, they come and go…we can’t hold them in our hands forever…but, there’s a firm hope that God might allow our paths to cross again someday…all He asks from us is to wait patiently and creatively…
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i made this comment yesterday for the blog entry of my best friend, but now i realize that it is worth keeping….
THE MIND & THE INTELLECT
"I want to speak my heart out. But the heart doesn’t have the mind that operates a speech pattern for a language. Thats why I am still dependent on what the mind can read for my heart to speak out. Does my heart have an operation for action? Like a muscle to demonstrate what it wants to express? I guess I do but then, the mind operates its rationality to give reason to action"
I say: Pardon me but i don’t completely agree with you…there are dangers in objectifying too much…our mind is also subject for error because there are other things in life that do not necessarily need our ideals. it will always be a case to case basis…it is not always the intellect that dictates what our heart should do…feelings presuppose ideas…when somebody hurts you, you do not immediately rationalize it…if you’re honest with yourself, you will initially feel the pain before your cerebellum works…i have always believed that the heart is the center of one’s decision…it is even more influential (and powerful) than what your mind imposes…only if you have learned to follow it…
HEART…FEELINGS…EMOTIONS…LOVE
I say: in contrast, emotions can be tamed…what’s the purpose of having the freedom and the will to decide on the various aspects of our lives if we just rely on what we feel?…nevertheless, emotions can be so damn good that we want to give in to it…life in this world cannot be absolutely explained in terms of phenomenonology or existentialism, where you still have to do a certain thing in order to realize its implications…true enough, we get some wisdom from the foolish things we have done for love…but i guess it is also possible to be wise by not being foolish at all…as a famous writer puts it, if we can be madly in-love with somebody, it is also possible to be "sanely" in-love with somebody…do we really have to touch the tip of the burning candle in order to realize that its flame is hot? at times, we are only required to pay attention and be cautious…it is alright to take risk but it is often done when you are in the state of indecision…we can always choose to do the right thing…