Have you ever had a dream? I don’t mean one of those night-sweat-inducing versions of Technicolor that sometimes occurs in the subconscious, but an actual, bonafide dream, something you wanted to see happen more than just about anything else in life?
My life is littered with shattered dreams, with unfinished dreams, with never-started-dreams. I had to be forty to go after an actual dream, and I still sometimes wonder whether I have the mettle to see it through to the end. We have people who interpret sleepytime dreams in abundance. Where’s the person who actually tells you what your living, breathing dream means? How to muddle through another conversation about your dream, when you really just want the person to hug you and tell you they believe in you? How to rise above so many incidents that could only occur in the altered universe of dreams, but they happened TO you, blasting through a conversation or blinking at the end of the cursor on a silent screen?
And so, when all else fails me, I turn to Queen.
A Kind of Magic is, for me, an anthem for my living dream. I’ve played it twenty times at the end of a frustrating lunch, blared it until my ears rang while reading another rejection, tapped my foot along with Freddie as my eyes ran with lonely tears, and toasted every minor success with it gyrating in the background. When people fail me, when circumstances threaten to crush me, when I want to curl in a corner and whisper “I give up,” a simple piece of music always sets my dream aright.
Until the next time.
Do you have a song that pushes you to believe in your dreams?
I hope you do. 2017 has been a hellscape of a year. The kind that kicks you when you are already down. Let’s play the music and march into 2018 determined to keep fighting for our dreams. They are, after all, a kind of magic.
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I have many “go to” songs that lift me up when I’m crushed. Lyle Lovett’s “If I Had a Boat” is probably my most consistent choice.
Or you can sing and play from your own collection.
I won’t be sad to say goodbye to 2017, that’s for sure. It was a weird year, and I’m sure it was made all the more intolerable by the chronic infection you suffered. Let’s hope 2018 is a little more uplifting.
In terms of music, Green Day always pumps me up.
Ah. You and MTM would get along well. He loves Green Day.
it was a tough year for many reasons and my go to song is ‘i will survive. ” )
Excellent choice. In my 30s, one of my friends played that every time one of us got dumped. It picked up our spirits.
I sing The Beatles’ “Let it Be” quite often! 🙂 I hope 2018 will bring you much closer to those dreams realized. ox
I heard that a couple of days ago and thought of you.
I used to listen to “Standing outside the fire” by Garth Brookes and “I Surrender” by Celine Dion..on repeat a long time ago, when I needed the strength to get out of the funk I was in, to do the things I knew I had to, to leave my marriage – for the sake of my sanity and his. For now, I haven’t had a song…yet. Here’s to a fabulous new year to you too Andra!
You’ve done so much since we met online, Anita. I’m really glad to see you. I’ve wondered how you were doing.
Aww..thank you 🙂 I’m doing ok. A lot of changes happening, but I am trusting that these are all good changes 🙂
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