U-Turn

So you know when you hear a song months or even years before everyone else? And then they start playing it on the radio. And then they start overplaying it... So then you get really tired of a song that you once really loved! That's how it is for me sometimes.

It actually just happened with the song "Shattered" by O.A.R. It's a great song, but not going to lie, I'm kind of sick of it. They've played countless times on my local radio station. Last night, it came on while I was taking a shower. I thought to myself, Ugh, I really don't want to hear this right now! But for some reason, I didn't change it. Something was telling me not to. Knowing the deeper meaning of the chorus, I decided I was going to actually listen to the lyrics. This way I could really apply it to my life, especially the place I'm in right now.

It was astounding. I felt like O.A.R. saw the future and then wrote the song just for this moment. Each line and each word described my life in one way or another. Looking back today, some of the lines were realizations I have needed to make and things I have needed to admit in order to get through the "brokenness" before I "shatter."

I think it's really cool how music does this to us. It has its way of coming back to us in our most despairing or trying times. Some would call it a circle, but I think of it as a U-turn. We could be making the U-turn back to music or the other way around. It's like in the song, "I always turn the car around..."

In my case, music and I both did a U-turn and we met in the middle. But now, I'm working on making my own U-turn in my own life. All I have to do is buckle up, grab hold of that wheel, press on the gas, and start turning.