Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?

The other day during Shavasana, I heard an instrumental version of a song I knew I know.  I couldn’t begin to recollect what the song was and it had gotten stuck in my head since.

Until one day at work where I was trying to use Google to help me get the name of the song using a few patched up phrases that I vaguely put together.  Hilarious I must say.  For once Google didn’t know what I was looking for.

There it was — “Colors of the wind” from Pocahontas.  Boom.

Needless to say, the song was on repeat for the rest of my day.  This particular song on this particular day made me marvel with awe at the universe.  For reasons beyond myself, I want to run under a vast blue sky, lie down next to a baby lion stroking its hair and fall asleep, look up at the sky when everything else blends into one color of nothingness and see that I have the whole galaxy to myself.

Oh the simple things in life.

 

The only thing you should be is happy

It’s funny because a song I’m addicted to now reminds me that the only thing my mom wants me to be is a good person.  Of everything that she taught me growing up, I remember nothing but how irritated I felt whenever she said I didn’t have to have the best grades, prettiest clothes; in fact, she said all I ever needed to be is become a good person.  I didn’t understand why, never cared to ask, because to me good doesn’t mean being nice and kind.  Until now.  Now “good” can be variably defined, and it’s actually much harder than one thinks to become somewhat of a good conscionable person, but I cannot agree more that it is gravely more important for one to be a good person before one aspires to do anything else in life.

How much I want to be able to say: Mom, I’ve grown up (although mothers would find it absurd to hear that their babies grow up), I understood why being a good person was important to you now.  It is also important to me and I want to make you proud. So, please, just be happy.  That’s the only thing you need to be.