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Old favorites, lines and phrases that stick in your head and pop out at the strangest times. It's a Simon and Garfunkel song that ends with: 'and flowers never bend with the rainfall'.
This is not a highlight of S&G music, but the idea of the song.
"Through the corridors of sleep
Past shadows dark and deep
My mind dances and leaps in confusion
I don't know what is real
I can't touch what I feel
And I hide behind the shield of my illusion"
When we are young there are many things that pull us in different directions. Some things are right and some are not. Some things are easily discernible some are fuzzy.
I was informed, as I neared graduation from high school, that I would look back on my high school years with longing and miss those 'carefree' days.
I knew I wouldn't, and I didn't. Things I have missed were opportunities, but that's another lesson in life.
However, once one phase of life is over it's time to move into the next. Like most people who aren't prepared for that next phase, and I'm convinced most eighteen year olds are not, it only feels like corridors of sleep we move through.
It is shadows dark and deep. We're swimming in new territory. Some young people have a real goal and moving on comes easily.
My sister moved into a prestigious two year business college. My mom wanted me to be a secretary as well, but I wasn't a business person.
My sister also had her father's social security which paid for her education. I did not. So, I applied for secretarial jobs, but ended up working waitress work.
We made a dollar an hour plus tips. That was the year the government decided waitresses ought to 'declare' their tips in order to know if they should be taxed on those tips...
Just trying to survive is the best description. Like the song, I didn't know what was real, and I thought I was doing fine. I had a job and a few friends. I went to Church when I could.
Hope is what makes life fine. Perhaps it was an illusion. If I had looked at my here and now and thought it was my here and forever that would have been depressing I think. But hope is possible by taking one day at a time.
1 Corinthians 15:19 "If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20) But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22) For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
