Music and more

When my grandmother passed away a couple of years ago it was a difficult time for all of us. Dealing with death is difficult enough but for us I think the death was much easier then dealing with the process of dying. I can’t explain my feeling’s as I watched her pass, trying to be helpful yet succumbing to frustration and even anger. It was a very confusing and difficult time in my life.

Around that time Kenny Chesney had released his album The Road and The Radio. I found myself enamored with many of the songs on this album. Repeatedly I sit listening to this album over and over because the music seemed to take me away from the problems I was dealing with.

Funny thing is that I never really cared for Chesney and his music until that album. Now though I am a fan and have probably bought every song he has ever recorded, including his newest album Lucky Old Sun.

One song from the new album that stands above the others is The Life. What a song! The song speaks of everything I, like most family men think about. Doing what we want, Getting away for a while, laughing, joking, simply just being a man

I then step back to reality and attempt to find simple answers to complex questions. When can I retire or will I ever have the chance to retire?

How can we afford this or that?

Will the never ending list of things that are broken ever end? Will my family be able to survive if something were to happen to me?

Is cholesterol really that bad Doctor? By the way Doc do you think Viagra will work for me?

Is 40 the end?

Is 50 the end?

Is 60 the end?

70?

Is this ever going to end?

You may find answers to some, maybe even all of the questions you ask but you will not like all the answers. So go back to work, get away and enjoy yourself when you can. What is important though is take some time for yourself every day, an hour or so, and do what you want to do even if it is just listening to the same song over and over. Remember even God rested!