I am not a big ‘touched by music’ person. I am not the emotional one who is attached to song because they speak to me, but when I heard this song for the first time I laughed- because it uses the example I always use. My thought is that you can’t wish for something to have been different in your past because it changes what you have now. I have three most amazing kids. If I had been cooler in high school or had started running earlier and went to a college for that I would not have ended up where I am now. I use the example in the song- every stoplight I didn’t make. I always think this when I am in a hurry and get every light. How do I know this light didn’t save my life? Maybe it slowed me up so I could smile at someone who was having a rough day. Maybe my losses were so that I could meet the right baby someday down the road, or so that I can someday hold the child that is intended for me. I love where I am now- who knows if one decision long ago would have changed things and I could not rock the Mere-bear while she sleeps or listen to her tell me about the pumpkin she made for the 70th time. Maybe I would not have been here to advocate for Will when he got a bad deal on class placement this year, or been here to listen to Julia tell me crazy stories about her future.
I have loved Darius Rucker forever – but this song beats all the old ones for me!
Download it on iTunes, totally worth it!
Lyrics to This
Got a baby girl sleepin’ in my bedroom
And her momma laughing in my arms
There’s the sound of rain on the rooftop
And the game’s about to start
I don’t really know how I got here
But I’m so glad that I did
And it’s crazy to think that one little thing
Could have changed all of this
Maybe it didn’t turn out like I planned
Maybe that’s why I’m such, such a lucky man