I feel like a cliché tonight.

For some reason, I kind of really love this song.

It kind of interrupted my solo dance party tonight – well, ok, you caught me – I’ve been dancing with my cat.

Everything, everything will be alright.

Theme song?

I was planning on posting the official music video, but then I remembered it’s a little weird with lots of people in their underwear for no reason.  This version, while less professional, emphasizes the lyrics which have hit home for me lately.  Enjoy.  The song sums up my mental state right now.  It’s a good thing.

I love how music can do that sometimes, express everything I want to in so few words, so few minutes.  Moments and occasions like that, when a song just really fits, you know, make me believe that we are all more connected than we think.  As a student of literature, I know it’s true.  We all share the same basic drives and desires.  I’m re-reading The Diary of Anne Frank before teaching it to my eighth graders at the end of the week, and I realized today just how powerful shared emotion can be.  How can a teenager’s words written years ago continue to inspire and affect so many people so profoundly?  How can her experience, so removed from most people’s – from mine – help me understand my own life?

They remind me that there are others out there sharing my mindset.

It’s great to feel like I’m not alone.