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Sounds Like Life to Me

You know that country song, sounds like life to me? well it's pretty great and if you don't know it you should give it a listen.  anyways, the song is about this guy who has started drinking again because the washing machine broke, his wife is pregnant, and he's just generally feeling like life sucks. his friend essentially tells him to buck up, suck it up and stop feeling sorry for yourself. his actually words are
 it sounds like life to me
it ain’t no fantasy
It’s just a common case of everyday reality
Man I know it’s tough but you gotta suck it up
To hear you talk you’re caught up in some tragedy
It sounds like life to me 
The song really makes me think about my own life and how i tend to be a little dramatic sometimes (i know, it's hard to believe). but, i tend to get bent out of shape over the little things rather than the bigger ones. if there is tension with me and a friend i will literally lose sleep over it while i can get laid off and just "go with the flow." i do not know why, it just is. and i can handle others' drama pretty well...which is a good thing since i make a living out of it! but when it comes to my own life, i will often freak over the little things. 

after spending some time analyzing myself (occupational hazard), i still wonder why this is. i have a few theories but they are just that: theories. no matter what the root cause of it is though, i need to "keep on, keepin' on." cause those little things don't matter...or shouldn't matter as much as they do to me.  the older i get the more i see that i can't waste what precious time i do have fretting about such little things. 


i find i often quote Matthew 6:27: "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" to help me to snap out of it. in the end i believe i need to learn to trust and follow my heart more in order to be following my life's purpose and truly not let the little things get to me. MUCH easier said than done, but that is what i am striving for. 


i am lucky to have friends like the guy in the song who tell me, with all the love in the world, "it sounds like life to me..."





 

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