[what-I-learned-from-Dad-lastnight] In the rather toxic matrix of the citys hustle and bustle, am often blinded by small problems, temporary hurdles, etc...I often forget to look at the big picture and get a grip of Whats more important? and Whats the big picture? Drove parents out earlier to visit friends, after I absent-mindedly ate my dinner with them at home - mind crowded and distracted (stressing over logistics for the concert project early next year, in conjunction with album release, etc). My dad asked me from the backseat if I knew the song title of a famous English song, he started singing a tune that wasnt anywhere in tune and his lyrics didnt quite make sense. Dad I dont know this song, I cannot tell what youre singing. (I just wasnt present enough in the conversation nor I had the patience then to try to figure it out) He started telling us that the lyrics of the songs is about not knowing what the future brings. My mom immediately said, Oh I know the song! :) I knew mom knows that its Que Sera Sera that dad was referring to - she also sang it better than dad. So I put on the song in the car for them, Pink Martinis version of Que Sera Sera from the Sympathique album. And dad started relating how life is indeed like the song itself - you cannot tell what the future brings. It brought a smile to my face thinking how, as a kid back in school, to live this life I have now would have been the wildest dream. Who would have thought that my parents would be cool enough to let me live the way I do when I first quit my day job? Never in my wildest dreams as a kid did I dreamed of working on an album of my own; never would I have believed that one day I would live my days as a storyteller on stage, singing songs of dreams and hopes for live audiences who indulge with me - even though I have written more than once in school homework that my ambitions and dream jobs were these: author, novelist, actor, singer and dancer. Hey you, I tell myself, This is the moment - of being alive, staying alive, ironing out problems, big and small...charging along; both your parents still around and they are playing witnesses to your lifes events - of your big and small achievements - being proud to have given birth to you. So why so grim? Theres nothing you can do that cant be done...nothing you can sing that cant be sung... Yea, I gotta learn to set my perspectives right and understand the scale of my `predicaments. So thank you dad, for singing the song, though out of tune and lyrics not quite right - you have taught me and reminded me last night on whats more important. Que Sera Sera. #janetwrites #janetleealbum #parents #family #living #queserasera #reflections #lifelessons #reminders #whysogrim #janetleemusic https://youtube/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:44:34 +0000