Soundbytes of Wisdom

November 13, 2009

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not. – Kurt Cobain

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

I live and breath for an audience of One. – Sarah Groves (from “This Journey Is My Own”)

I won’t pretend. I’m not hip, slick or even remotely cool and I offer as proof that even on threat of torture I couldn’t name one song written or performed by Kurt Cobain, and I only know he was the lead singer of Nirvana due singularly to my best source and yours for looking smarter than we really are, Wikipedia. The only thing I know sans Wikipedia is that he was a talented young man who died too young, too soon, and too tragically.

I know a whole lot more about Dr. Seuss, being a devoted fan of his pivotal literary works including “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”, “Green Eggs and Ham,” and his tour de force, “The Cat and the Hat” with the follow up, “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back,” which serves as a primo supremo exception to the rule that the original is always better than the sequel.  Au contraire mon amie! “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” held me spellbound from start to finish. That crazy crazy cat. I’m no book critic but I still have high standards in literature which include a super-neat storybook with good pictures and a catchy rhyme.

And Sara Groves, well, she’s one of my best friends. She just doesn’t know it. Not yet anyway. I’ve been listening to her music for a couple years now since she wooed me with lyrics that spoke to the dark night of the soul I was walking through at the time. She’s had me ever since. She and Kari Jobe that is. They share equal play time on my iPod.

So, it’s not like I need to say this but I’m rambling here, typing with abandon without saying  much of anything for a couple reasons; the first being that I’m having a bit of a hard time getting back into the rhythm of blogging. My creative muscles have atrophied from lack of use so consider this post my first set of crunches after a long absence from the gym. It’s painful to watch but it’s got to happen if I’m ever going to get moving again.

The other reason is that Dr. Seuss, Kurt Cobain, and Sara Groves pretty much said it all and don’t need me to round it out.  We spend so much of our lives living to please others that we end up losing ourselves and when the day comes that we finally find ourselves again, our true selves, we fear being who we really are will be met with rejection and scorn by others. And yes, that might be true but in the end, as the Sara Groves song goes, this journey is our own and and because it is we’re to live it the way that’s most true for us knowing that in the end there’s  the opinion of only One that will count for anything…the One who created you to be fully, completely, radically, and simply who. you. are.

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