Meant to Shine

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

by Marianne Williamson

Monday, December 20, 2010

Day 04: A Song that Makes You Sad

My dearest less-than-followers,

I apologize [again]. I officially suck at challenges. My last post was on Thursday, today is Sunday [Yikes.]. In my defense there were finals and travel and sleep involved in those few days, but that's no excuse for being so far behind. However, I think with a little perseverance we can make it through this little set-back. Forgive me? Great. Today's [Friday's rather, but I figured I'd pick up where I left off.] theme is a song that makes me sad, and after much thought I have decided on...

[Forgive the sappiness.] "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt. What can I say? It's a cookie dough ice cream favorite. It's also a sing-as-loud-and-as-poorly-as-I-possibly-can-in-the-car/shower favorite. Bonnie's heartbreaking ballad, pleading the man she loves to love her back, gets me every time. Every girl knows what it's like to love a guy who doesn't even know your name, or worse, knows your name but could not care less about you. Crap, now I've stumbled into the land of Taylor Swift. Well, you've caught me, I am a sucker for a well done love song. 

Before the bitter T-Swift fans bring out the pitchforks and label me a hypocrite, [If you have no idea what I'm referring to with the whole Taylor Swift thing go back a few posts to my Day 02.] I will say this: Love songs have their place. For me, love songs, whether sad or happy, should be the crown jewel of an album, the best song for the best subject [love is the best subject, if you're not following me], not every song on the same subject. Taylor Swift [and I suppose Bonnie Raitt as well] seem to occupy every song with love. Male artists don't write every song about females, so why do we ladies tend to obsess over our men? But all criticism aside, Bonnie and Taylor, I can't deny that I love a good love song. 

Whether you could understand that last paragraph or not remains to be seen. I'm not sure if I even understand what I just wrote. I guess I'm a hypocrite. But here's to Taylor Swift. Here's to Bonnie Raitt. And here's to songs that make us love. 
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