Thursday, April 7

Forever Young

Anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with 80's music. I have been hearing this song randomly placed in some favorite movies and tv shows lately, so I listened. (yes the video is creepy, but that is one of the reasons I love the 80's )

Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you going to drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the mad men

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever? Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young

It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever

So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Lyrics from Forever Young by Alphaville circa 1984

I like the line, "it's hard to get old without a cause." My birthday was yesterday and I am finding that this statement is so true. The older I get, the more important it is to me that I stand for something and that people know what that something is.

I have so many soapboxes these days, sometimes it is hard to know which ones are the important ones and which ones I just have carried with me. So here they are:
  • I don't understand why anyone that is young and passionate about the church needs to go to seminary.
  • I don't understand why people insist on showing their love by buying the 3rd most abundant resource in the world, especially when this resource is most likely acquired through violence.
  • Why can't we have discernment for the laity who want to stay part of the laity?
  • Why can't people just conserve resources? Do you really need the water to run while you brush your teeth? It DOES affect people in other countries whether you want to admit it or not! The wealthiest 16% of the people on earth (this is all of the US) consume 80% of the world's resources. This is pathetic.
  • Why do you need an iPod, iPhone, iMac, iPad, and a MacBook? It doesn't make you any cooler, in fact it kind of makes you look like a tool.
  • Priests are people. Love them enough to treat as nothing more than people. They are no more special than the rest of us. It is love not disrespect no matter what people say.
  • Do not complain unless you are willing to do something about it!!
What are your causes?