Life, is a state of mind...
A song is playing on the stereo (okay, it’s With or Without You) and Bono’s voice takes me over and back to 1987 we were dancing on Matthew’s deck a little drunk and our parents out of town I had a bit of hope flowin’ cause U2 was saying “And we scorch the Earth, set fire to the sky. And you steep so low, to reach so high…” (that one’s for you, Chang) I love you my brothers and sisters wherever you are whatever you’re doing I don’t forget – I will never forget.
I’m watching those beautiful flakes come down here in Asheville and listening to Sarah Brightman’s “Deliver Me.” Now she is an ANGEL on Earth. (Check out Sarah Brightman on Youtube) She can almost break GLASS with her voice!
I am running free in the land of Paradise where they say the sun always shines but I say in Heaven a little bit of snow still exists because every “flake is a little bit different” and the scientists can’t answer why that is nor can they explain how there’s more information in one strand of DNA than all the computers in the world but I know why because God showed me in a dream and the snow keeps falling blanketing the land with that silent beauty the enrapture of time “standing still” let’s walk across the fields until the WARDROBE opens hey Mr. Lewis I feel you writing this cause’ your spirit is still with me in this land of confusion and I’m SO TIRED OF THE DOOM AND GLOOM of bipolar I don’t subscribe to the doctor’s point of view HAPPINESS is right there I see it in the falling snow in the children playing before all we cared about was money or THINGS or TIME or our fucking GOALS so I say this to all of you thinking if life is worth living please take it from someone who has cut life from themselves with a knife and God let me stay here for some reason.
IT IS WORTH IT – I promise you can find that happiness don’t you see it isn’t a place or a person or a thing but a SPIRIT that lives in you that made all those raindrops keep pouring down that made our Earth move around the sun (Thanks STING for that line I stole it) and just breathe in and MAKE A CHANGE cause’ I swear to God if you have BIPOLAR – you have more power than you think over this “disease.” Why don’t we let God perform a miracle and step out of the way?
Thanks Mr. Sellers. You are not forgotten.
