Emotionally yours

Good Sunday to all.  Hope you're having a good weekend!

I'm having a GREAT weekend, because I began a ten day vacation Friday evening at the end of the work day!  No plans, no overnight travels, just whatever my wife and I decide to do with the time.  Just needed a break from work and schedules and the like.

I don't often post on Sunday but was thinking about this subject, broad though it is, recently.  As I drove home from my marketing visits to some hospitals and clinics on Thursday, I decided to listen to some of Harry Chapin's music.  If you're not familiar with Harry, he was known for his "story" songs, many of which were too long for popular radio.  Among them was a song simply called "Taxi, and I played that first.  Found myself becoming emotional while listening to it, so I wiped my eyes and paused to find something else among Mr. Chapin's work.  Landed on another story song, "A Better Place to Be."  Same thing, was just a wreck by the time the song ended.

I suppose that this is where I am.  I get emotional now when watching reruns of "The West Wing," and not just once in a while, but seemingly endlessly.  I can't watch "Field of Dreams" very often because the last thirty minutes are so apt to make me get teary-eyed.   I'm a mess at the end of each of the three movies that comprise the Dark Knight trilogy.  I watched the second Star Trek movie with the original cast a couple of weeks ago in a hotel room.  The ending is a real gut punch and it got me as it always does.

Something made me think of Lou Gehrig not long ago, and to think that he was dying and stood and spoke to 50,000 Yankee fans to thank them and to say that "I have an awful lot to live for," without knowing if he would see another day.  Again, tears in my eyes.

I also always lose my composure near the end of "The Return of the King," the final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  I won't tell you where, but I'd bet if you know that film, you can guess.

I'll be 66 in about a week and I honestly don't know if I am feeling my mortality or just reflecting on the life I've enjoyed to this point.  But this level of emotion is becoming more and more prevalent.  

But I don't think that it's a bad thing, by any standard.  I have never been one to hide my emotions, having suffered from a bit of a temper as a younger man, so maybe this is just some emotional transference.

We all evolve, but I honestly don't know that we realize that we are until after the fact.

Sending good thoughts to everyone who may read this!

   

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