And Life's Gonna Drop You

"And life's gonna drop you down like the limbs of a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see"

These lyrics remind me of a hymn we sang in grade school, called Hosea. It's one of those songs (Hosea and not Jump) that I want at my funeral. The irony being that I already want 2 Madonna songs and Hosea is really a hymn.

But I digress. I'm less then 24 hours away from a Madonna concert on her "Confessions Tour." As you can expect, I am excited. I've been doing my best to avoid the reviews; I don't want to know too much. However, it's been noteworthy enough for me to know about the crucifixion set up for Live to Tell and Like a Virgin performed to the backdrop of her X-rays from falling off a horse. (Brilliant, how effing self-referential is that?! Look at me, dancing in front of MY X-rays. Self-indulgent! But I'm jealous that she did it first.)

Back to the lyrics from Jump, they have been striking a cord with me lately. I just don't know yet what I've been so stubborn about and what I need to do before snapping.

Maybe that's the soul searching I need to do now. What am I too stoic, rigid and unforgiving about? How will I change it?

One thing's for sure, that the Madonna concert will be one of my topics of conversations for the next 2 weeks. Then I can focus on self-actualization.