I think that music is powerful. Sure, that sounds cheesy. Britney Spears probably has said that same thing in some heartfelt interview with Barbara Walters, and that detracts from my statement. Roll with me though...I use music to brighten up bad days and to get myself out of a "funk". It is also very mellowing when I am hyped up or anxious. Singing "I Have Confidence" from the Sound of Music really does give me confidence. I actually sang that song the day I left home.
"What will this day be like? I wonder.
What will my future be? I wonder.
It could be so exciting to be out in the world, to be free
My heart should be wildly rejoicing
Oh, what's the matter with me?
I've always longed for adventure
To do the things I've never dared
And here I'm facing adventure
Then why am I so scared..."
Those lyrics were so true that day. That same day, as I was leaving home to strike out on my own a thousand miles away, my dad played the Dixie Chick's "Wide Open Spaces" for me. It was the most fitting song--and everytime I hear it, I get a little weepy!
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone
Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
What a pivotal day in my life. I still think about the whirlwind that swept me away and the results of my choices. It's amazing!
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