When I was Younger by SOJA.
I recorded on my sailboat anchored off Maui.
The photos were taken while sailing around in lagoons of Honolulu.
This song speaks of the many questions of life…
Like the questions about why some of us are born with so much,
While the rest of us are just ‘chasing down a dream that we just can’t reach’.
It points out the idea of “happiness” that most people seek in materialist ‘things’…
Is just creating more un-happiness because that kind of ‘happiness’
is just a short phase between being… UN happy.
This song ponders such things as ‘where do we go when we die’…
As I’m now in my ‘older years’… I recall like this song states that…
‘When I was younger, I had the answers to the questions of life’.
I indeed had visions, plans, dreams, desires…
I felt a solid path towards realizing those dreams.
As life unfolds,
some dreams were fulfilled and yet others turned into nightmares.
All of the ups & downs of life add up to help us find our own sort of contentedness
within our self and the life we now are in.
It’s now more of an acceptance… to just ‘let it be’, to ‘Be here now’.
To accept life with Grace.
To appreciate the blessings we’ve experience,
And to see Blessings in all that is.
Finding this contentedness in the ever-present moments of life
is truly the secret to eternal Bliss.
I hope everyone will find this Bliss right here in this ‘here & now’.
Namaste – Peace Peace Peace
