Life is Calling

I totally think they should contact Peace Corps about them using this video for an ad--listen to the lyrics. Not only do they have great voices, but the lyrics match....amazing

Motivating Song

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted
No silent prayer for the faith-departed
I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd
You're gonna hear my voice
When I shout it out loud

[Chorus:]
It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky
Got to make your own breaks

Actually, this song is one of my favorites. Especially when I am driving. I like to turn the volume up so loud, belt out the song, all the while dancing like crazy. I can't explain how I get into it.

Once I really heard the words...while it is just a song, it really inspires me. Maybe that sounds corny, but it does. It really makes me want to go out any do things that I want to do, but probably would do. And it is funny, while I can play that song in my car on my iPod or on my laptop all I want, the only times I have ever heard it come onto the radio were the two times I was really thinking hard about something I wanted to do but wasn't sure if I could. The first was last fall about deciding to go to China. The second was about a month ago when I was contemplating applying to the Peace Corps.

What happens is that I will think about something, long and hard, what I really would love to do...but I always am unsure of it. I don't think I can do it, I wonder how I could go away, think about if I am strong enough to make it. Doubt doubt doubt. Both those times the song came on and as I'm belting it out in my car, I can just feel energy coursing through my body. As I sing the lyrics, I realize just how true they are.

I'm 23 and am at the perfect time in my life to go out on my own and experience these great things. When I'm 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 I don't want to look back and say "I didn't do it because I was scared" or "I didn't do it because of my boyfriend" (whom, mind you, I love very very much and have full intentions of coming back to).  While I'm young enough and at a perfect place in my life, I want to do these things. I need to do these things. Just like the song says, "It's my life/It's now or never/I ain't gonna live forever/I just want to live while I'm alive"

How can this song not inspire you. Try it, in your car, driving down the highway or 50+ areas....turn this song on, turn it up LOUD, and just have at it. It sends shivers through my spine and it pushes me just that extra little bit to remember, it's my life, and I want to make it a great one.

Post Hope

The more I look at this TEFL course, the more I think I want to be places as an English teacher.  Last fall, I spent 6 weeks in Beijing learning Chinese.  My class had 9 people in it, which was considered large, but 4 of us girls got really close.  We always wondered to each other "why are we singing songs about a one eyed tiger with no tail? why are we playing this butterfly fly game?"

Seriously, we played this game called "butterfly fly" I think it had something to do with counting, I forget, and whoever was singing the phrase would have to "fly" (aka flap their arms) and the people next to them did the same with their closest arm. We seriously thought she was crazy for making us do this.

But now I see that they actually teach you to do stuff like this! Now,  I'm sorta giggling over it and loving it! I think I'm going to relearn the butterfly fly game and take it to the PC with me, as well as write out a bunch of little kid songs and make copies, and download it to my ipod so they can hear--and make them sing, just like I had too!

Wow, the world really does go 'round