FEELS LIKE TODAY!

Sometimes living this life one-day-at-a-time is a very complex proposition. Sometimes we face things we perceive to be insurmountable at the moment. This too will pass, and on we go, one way or the other.

The title to this article is a song and such a good one for what we try to deal with in this little Blog. It’s great to be alive today! Don’t you agree? It’s great to feel. There is probably someone you know who is just numb. It is so sad that some people have gone so far as to complete suicide just to experience feeling.

This video by Rascal Flatts is helpful because the words are nearly as complex as what we said about life. (Hey! Let me hear from you. What do you make of the video—both the lyrics and the visuals presented in the video?).

You treat life like a picture
But it’s not a moment frozen in time
It’s not going to wait
Till you make up your mind.

What is a picture? It is a moment frozen in time. Life is not really that way. But, each picture brings back a memory of the moment. We look at the picture and it is something that happened. It could have been great and it could have been sad.

But, back to life! It’s not going to wait ‘til we make up our minds. We must act now, in the moment we have, because that’s all we have to work with.

As you view the video, there are several people photographed by a Polaroid-type camera: a pregnant woman, a lonely person, probably a depressed person, and perhaps others with various problems—because each of them presents a peculiar situation in the video. The thought that really comes to mind is that in each case, each one has some apprehension, perhaps caused by some emptiness in his or her life.

At the end of the video each one peels back the photo to see a happy ending. Of course that would be nice if life really worked that way. Don’t get me wrong, I am the proverbial optimist, but life doesn’t always work that easily.

In the photo the pregnant girl had delivered and was holding a beautiful baby. She had to undergo significant struggle to get to that point. That’s the way life is and sometimes what I feel life is mostly about—struggle. What do you think?? I want to know. Let me hear. h