Thursday, May 18, 2006
CHANGED FOR GOOD
So I was having a lovely walk home last night, listening to the soundtrack for "Wicked" on my MadonnaPod when the song, "For Good" came on and all of a sudden a kind of nostalgic sadness hit me about how quickly things are changing around here. The song is about two friends saying good-bye to one another and expressing how important they are in one another's lives. Well, Phil actually gave me the soundtrack and I saw the musical with him and Peter during our trip to New York in 2005. So the sadness hit when I was thinking of Phil moving this August and then about all the other changes that are taking place ...
Life, as it's been for the last three years or so just will not be the same after this summer. Phil is going to McMaster to become a doctor (soooo very proud of him); Darcy is all caught up, working like crazy on his Masters degree and will probably be moving on once he's done; Harold is gone to Vancouver; Jake is in London with his boyfriend; Brendan is off running all over the world; Julie is moving to Calgary in December; and both Peter and I are moving out of Halifax after December as well. Needless to say that the winds of change are blowing in Halifax, and while we are supposed to embrace change, I can't help but be just a little sad that everyone is going their separate ways.
Here are the lyrics that got me thinking about all this sentimental stuff:
It well may be, that we will never meet again
In this lifetime, so let me say before we part
So much of me, is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine by being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you ... I have been changed for good.
Life, as it's been for the last three years or so just will not be the same after this summer. Phil is going to McMaster to become a doctor (soooo very proud of him); Darcy is all caught up, working like crazy on his Masters degree and will probably be moving on once he's done; Harold is gone to Vancouver; Jake is in London with his boyfriend; Brendan is off running all over the world; Julie is moving to Calgary in December; and both Peter and I are moving out of Halifax after December as well. Needless to say that the winds of change are blowing in Halifax, and while we are supposed to embrace change, I can't help but be just a little sad that everyone is going their separate ways.
Here are the lyrics that got me thinking about all this sentimental stuff:
It well may be, that we will never meet again
In this lifetime, so let me say before we part
So much of me, is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine by being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you ... I have been changed for good.
:: posted by Ray of Delight, 9:09 AM
1 Comments:
ok, you just made me cry at work. Now I look like a moron.
