trying to remember to forget....

Here's a beautiful and touching song called, "Don't Forget" by Pat Metheny.
It sort of dovetails with a saying I have had for many years since I was in a life changing accident. I came up with the saying, "I am trying to remember to forget"...as the challenges and changes I face since my accident make me wish I could remember to forget so much that 'was' my life and who I was before my accident.

Memorable?

I’d rather be forgotten, than remembered incorrectly.

a chrous that inspires

Music is a very integral part of my life. I listen to so many gendres of music, and this song nails it for me.
The chorus is like it was lifted from my life after my accident, "Had fingers in my eyes, had needles in my veins, a knife right through my heart, I am a victory"...no matter what anyone views me as being - to me, I am a victory!

After my accident, I DID have fingers in my eyes, needles in my veins, and did feel like a knife had run through my heart.
So although the lyrics of the song were not written specifically to my experiences, it (to me) does speak of my challenges, and to how far I have come, and that I am a victory.

if only ...

The song is, "Everything's Going To Work Out Right" by - in my opinion a music legend - Joe Grushecky (& The Houserockers).
IF ONLY song lyrics could make everything work out right....

all I want to do

22 years ago today I was in an accident that altered my life and who I am. For reasons too lengthy to go into at this point, New Jersey will always be my "home", although I am no longer there - I long to be "home", and this song both is sad to me, and yet - what keeps me going, with the hope that somehow, some way I can go "home".

all I want....

#Home #NewJersey