Same. I think this song is basically just telling young people to stop spending so much time worrying about their future and to enjoy the present ("you'll be glad when you get older that you were happy for today"). It's similar to the Ferris Bueller quote: "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once and a while, you could miss it."
Sweet says it doesn't matter if you don't know what you want to be when you're grown up, or if you don't know what you ultimately want to do with your life. That will all work itself out eventually, so you should stop to enjoy your present situation in life because you will not be able to go back to it. I wish I had found this song earlier, because the "you'll be glad when you get older that you were happy for today" would have been my senior quote. It's so true, people these days are so overworked and overstressed because there is so much pressure on them to be overachievers. Do what feels right to you, everything will be fine in the end.
Same. I think this song is basically just telling young people to stop spending so much time worrying about their future and to enjoy the present ("you'll be glad when you get older that you were happy for today"). It's similar to the Ferris Bueller quote: "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once and a while, you could miss it."
Sweet says it doesn't matter if you don't know what you want to be when you're grown up, or if you don't know what you ultimately want to do with your life. That will all work itself out eventually, so you should stop to enjoy your present situation in life because you will not be able to go back to it. I wish I had found this song earlier, because the "you'll be glad when you get older that you were happy for today" would have been my senior quote. It's so true, people these days are so overworked and overstressed because there is so much pressure on them to be overachievers. Do what feels right to you, everything will be fine in the end.