Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of
I'm not afraid of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find a decent melody
A song that I can sing in my own company
I never thought you were a fool
But darling, look at you
You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere, baby
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it
I will not forsake, the colours that you bring
But the nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing
I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me
I still listen through your ears, and through your eyes I can see
And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough, and you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now... my oh my
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Oh love look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm till you discover how deep...
I wasn't jumping... for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all
You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it
Don't say that later will be better now
You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass
And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It's just a moment
This time will pass
Your life and destiny are determined by the choices that you make. This seems like an obvious statement, but sometimes it is hard to realize in the moment. Life is full of serious and sometimes somber decisions that you have to make in order to move on with your life. In order to keep your life moving in a positive direction you sometimes have to look yourself straight in the face and make the hard decisions.
Usually these decisions have to do with our emotional condition, concerning whether we will follow what we feel or if we will oppose those feelings and do something different. Significant life decisions seem to be the hardest, maybe not on paper, but internally they require a lot of wrestling and fighting with yourself.
One of the harder decisions that I have faced is deciding to move on with life. This decision always takes a significant amount of pure initiative. It takes a lot of willpower to stand up, decide to ignore your emotions for the time being and do something in a positive direction. This decision to remove yourself from the funk of 'just living life' is extremely difficult. Some people never make this decision. They fail to make it for many different reasons - pain, fear, insecurity, comfort. However, by my observation, the most average people that I know are those who never make that move. They never move on. They tried something once, it defeated them and now they don't want to do anything that would 'rock their boat' again.
In Generation Next, our college Bible study at my church, we recently talked about fear and the effect it has on our lives. We talked about 'gamers' versus 'non-gamers' both are afraid to fail, but a gamer goes for it anyway. A gamer has learned to enjoy that suspenseful moment of fear and they succeed. One of my greatest personal fears is sitting back getting comfortable and allowing myself to lose all of the dreams and passions and big ideas that I have now and then all of a sudden it is twenty years later and I have been marginalized to just another average guy. Maybe in my youth I still have an idealogical and romantized view of life, well no maybe about that, but why should I lose that? Why should I let pain and frustration and mediocrity dictate how I live my life? Why should I let myself get stuck in a moment?!
I won't. I can't. I owe it to myself. This is why I blog. This is why I throw myself into difficult situations. This is why I keep going back to the people who correct me the most. This is why my mouth keeps moving. I want something big out of this life. Yeah, life may come at me harder than it has. And ten years from now, I may not be able to write posts life this, but damn it I am still going to be kicking.
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