| Heart – Dog And Butterfly Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[marnsmarie:40887] Your pain is almost visible. I am sorry for your losses. Sometimes we have to learn how to just forget to think of the past ot the future we can\'t control.\r\nI just finished a bankruptcy telephone hearing and for some reason this Dog and Butterfly song popped into my head. Looked it up and listened to it. The melody is so transcendental. Carried me to the happiness of living in the moment then the reality that we are earthbound and can\'t really fly but happy just because we were in the act of trying. The old man is the practical, sage through experience of life but the exuberance of the chasing the butterfly gives the dog still the desire to experience the joy of trying to fly over and over just to try. Even though he\'s destined to fall back down to the warm soft ground which didn\'t harm him and he got the joy, for just a brief moment of flying. Back in the maybe \'80\'s or 90\'s there was a sitcom staged in Alaska as a small town with iconic characters. One, Chris, was a dj at the towns radio station and one episode Chris decided he was going to catapult a baby grand piano. The whole episode was about the preparation to catapult the piano. When the actual thing was accomplished the town all wondered why so much work for something that was over in a matter of seconds. I loved his reply and try to live in the spirit of it. He said "It\'s not the fling that\'s flung but the fling itself". Sometimes life doesn\'t make a lot of sense but we need to learn to let the things in life that hurt us go. Learn to live in the now. The old man may be wise and have sage advice but honestly the dog is just enjoying trying something new...trying to reach a, probably, unattainable, goal but he\'s living in the moment and loving it, laughing, because it\'s exciting and new. The song. The melody and the words both take me up and down and draw a primal sense of love, of love lost but the joy again of living briefly in the now and feeling the pure happiness of flying for a brief moment. We need to learn to live every moment possible in the now and not be sad or angry for that that has passed or distress or worry about things in the future we can\'t control.\r\nIf you aren\'t familiar, I have one last thought to share in hopes it might help you deal with life and it\'s challenges. My favorite poem called Desiderata is what I strive to live my life by..I hope you can someday soon find something to bring joy back in your life. Maybe your kids. Maybe something you haven\'t even thought about yet. But hope you find peace....and read the poem. It\'s life changing. I think. Best wishes to you. | |
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