I think there's something in the water...
For the last few months, everyone in my life here in LA has been going through the same crisis. We all ask ourselves "Who am I?", "What am I looking for?", "Am I happy in my life as it is now?" and "Is there something else out there for me?"
And one by one, we have each been waiting for our 'moment of clarity,' the moment when we finally find the answers to each of these questions and decide how to move forward, or how to embrace where we are.
For my friend Melanie, her moment of clarity came when she decided that she needed to divorce her husband whether or not that meant that her son would grow up in a 'broken home'. For Marie, her moment of clarity has been slow, but she is learning to become her own woman, independent of her relationship of 6 years.
As for me, I found clarity in the final season of Queer as Folk.
To commemorate this newfound enlightenment, I spent $100 on all but one of the Queer as Folk soundtracks.
And now, I sit and listen to them one by one, knowing that whatever is meant to be will be, and that I have many years to figure many things out. But for today, and for tomorrow, I concentrate on myself, and making myself happy, and finding out exactly what it means to do just that.
* * *
I look into the window of my mind
Reflections of the fears I know I've left behind
I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can't stop me now
And you can do the same
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It's never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
Still so many answers I don't know
Realize that to question is how we grow
So I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can't stop me now
And you can do the same
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It's never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
We need a change
Do it today
I can feel my spirit rising
We need a change
So do it today
'Cause I can see a clear horizon
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
'Cause you could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today
You could be so many people?
Just make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
-Heather Small - "Proud"
And one by one, we have each been waiting for our 'moment of clarity,' the moment when we finally find the answers to each of these questions and decide how to move forward, or how to embrace where we are.
For my friend Melanie, her moment of clarity came when she decided that she needed to divorce her husband whether or not that meant that her son would grow up in a 'broken home'. For Marie, her moment of clarity has been slow, but she is learning to become her own woman, independent of her relationship of 6 years.
As for me, I found clarity in the final season of Queer as Folk.
To commemorate this newfound enlightenment, I spent $100 on all but one of the Queer as Folk soundtracks.
And now, I sit and listen to them one by one, knowing that whatever is meant to be will be, and that I have many years to figure many things out. But for today, and for tomorrow, I concentrate on myself, and making myself happy, and finding out exactly what it means to do just that.
* * *
I look into the window of my mind
Reflections of the fears I know I've left behind
I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can't stop me now
And you can do the same
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It's never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
Still so many answers I don't know
Realize that to question is how we grow
So I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can't stop me now
And you can do the same
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It's never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
We need a change
Do it today
I can feel my spirit rising
We need a change
So do it today
'Cause I can see a clear horizon
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
'Cause you could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today
You could be so many people?
Just make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
-Heather Small - "Proud"