What If? Believe me when I say these are two of the world’s most very powerful words. What if? It begs to open up a whole lot of reflection in a person’s life. Always being a late bloomer, it has made me enter a mid-life crisis of sorts where I wonder “what if.” What if the band I belonged to in college went on that USO tour? What if I became the airline pilot I originally wanted to be? What if I had been more decisive and bold after college and hadn’t let my life and career path meander the way it did? What if I had had a happy marriage and hadn’t lost my baby? What if I had chosen to please myself first and worry about what others think second? What if my mother hadn’t died in her sleep almost 18 years ago? What if I weren’t plagued by chronic illnesses that just keep on blossoming anew as I get older? What about these regrets? Have they truly made my life any less fun or given me any less abundance of laughter? Has my life been any less full of love and friendship, any less gifted with the blessings of strong family ties, any less joyful for the existence of my beloved twin sister? What these regrets do is make me appreciate all the things I got right (and there were surprisingly some) that much more. The only thing I’m waiting for is the right man to come to make me feel loved and who will want to cherish me forever. That is something I have yet to ever experience even in the smallest measure. (Somebody please notify Mike Rowe.) But when my “what ifs” start hovering over my bed at night sometimes it feels like I have “a thousand wild horses running behind me hell-bent on running me down.” I’m borrowing these words from one of the most well-crafted songs I’ve ever heard, written by Gary Burr, and Sam and Annie Tate. It is sung by the group Blue Sky Riders. If you haven’t heard them yet, you’re missing a real treat – the group consists of Gary Burr, Georgia Middleman and Kenny Loggins. I’ve printed the lyrics to the song here because they speak the truth for all of us and are pure poetry themselves. Here is the URL link of a video of Gary and Georgia singing it because it wouldn’t completely engage your heart if you didn’t experience it first hand. It’s from their first album “Finally Home.” Enjoy. A Thousand Wild Horses Just when I thought the demons I fought were dead and gone, Straight out of the blue someone like you comes along, And I don’t have to turn and look over my shoulder I already know from the sound. There’s a thousand wild horses thundering behind me Hell-bent on running me down. I thought I was fast but the sins of my past are faster still, And I’m wasting my time trying to leave them behind ‘cos I never will. One drink too many, one kiss too deep and I feel that old shake in the ground. That’s a thousand wild horses thundering behind me hell-bent on running me down. Each one is branded, each one is mine and each one’s a darkness I can’t deny. I know they’re coming, there’s no place to hide. I’m gonna get run down, or I’m gonna ride. Right now they’re just a big cloud of dust, but pretty soon I’ll do something stupid like I tend to do and I’ll let ‘em loose. So if you’re think that maybe you’re the one who can save me, Baby this ain’t no merry-go-round. It’s a thousand wild horses thundering behind me hell-bent on running me down. I’ve got a thousand wild horses thundering behind me hell-bent on running me down.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:57:01 +0000
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