The Universe Rights a Wrong
Remember this post about memories and music and what to do with all of it?
I left it up to the universe, and the universe took care of it. Or is in the process of doing so, anyhow.
This last trip was an eventful one, but that’s another post already in progress. I had just boarded my flight from Detroit to Burlington, which was delayed due to crew problems created by high winds in Detroit. My eyes were tired, but my heart was aflutter and my spirits were high. The safety lecture ended, and the waiting music started tinkering over the speakers, note by note, one after another, as I recognized the melody with horror.
It was one of those songs. From the post. A song I have avoided carefully, vigilantly, for nearly a year now. One that had no positive memories associated with it, merely buckets of pain, betrayal and dismay. Here I was, with no escape, no way to turn down the radio, or ask that it be turned off. My choices were to stick my fingers in my ears and hum or put the big girl panties on.
As I listed to the chords and the words and I felt my heart quicken and hot tears stain my cheeks, I realized something.
This was my chance to change the memory. So I did.
I thought about the lyrics, I let the music fill my heart. I thought about where I was going and who I was going to see, and how I felt about being in that seat, on that plane, in that moment. I thought about how if I didn’t have the first association with that song, I wouldn’t be right there, right then, to make a new one.
Even if nothing comes of this, even if it ends poorly, I will always remember the night I sat on a late night flight and changed my tune.
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I just got goosebumps reading that. Magic.
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I read this earlier but I am still not adept at typing on a virtual “touch sensitive” keyboard so didn’t comment at the time.
I loved the whole “changing your tune” thing. That was very clever.
As always, love you hard, VBC! **HUGS**
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loved this post. LOVED IT.
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Cat, I absolutely 100% adore this post! Seriously! Because I’ve been there. Unable to escape and I’ve said the same thing – this is your chance to change how it makes you feel. We can be so powerful, when we allow ourselves to be.
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I still have yet to replace my memories of good times with the love of my life. Perhaps one day, but part of me refuses to allow it. It wants to remember her as the person I know, not the person she is trying desperately to become.
I keep hearing this as a song – sung to the tune of “Another One Bites the Dust”….
Love that you changed your tune!
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THIS is FANTASTIC!!!
I am so happy for you.
You are such an inspiration!
XO
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