Jessie J backing vocalist inspiration - Gotta Be True to Yourself

There's a pureness in their voices I can not put into words and from I first heard this - I was enamored and played it like 50 times - no breaks! And they inspired this....

Days seem a haze
lack luster
lost the glaze
dreams replaced
by issues faced
monetarily no gain
sense lapsed
loved a fool, fool left
the only thing that went right
hardened by love loss
lovers lied
could fill stadiums with tears cried
tried to change
built a wall...
       but I urge you
let it crumble
let it fall
you were meant to be
strong
not stone
don't let hardships in life
crush your soul
you were meant to be
the best version
       of who you are

I've heard this song before, and I loved it then but it's like the combination of their voices bestowed a gift of clarity right before me.  As most of us often do, in navigation of this crowded yet lonely world, we try to find our footing.

We dream.
We aspire.
We work.

Sometimes it feels like it's going no where. It feels like you're climbing an active volcano with bricks on your back. And just as you feel like those bricks can get no heavier - you are given another load. I understand. I get it. But in order for you to get where you are supposed to be you have to weather this journey. When I discuss my discontent with my best friend sometimes he seems so insensitive. He's like well you know what you want, you have to do it - put in the work. I wanna say shut up and tell me, "there there - you're right. it's okay." However, I understand that sometimes I need to hear those things so I can refocus and just be the best of myself. I can't allow people's actions to dictate who I am or who I become.

I am a work in progress, but I'm not hiring - God's got the job!

Dare Me...I'm NOT Afraid to Wild Out

One more word of insult, to drive me to the edge
two more seconds until your pushed off the ledge
I dare you...

We've all experienced at least one moment in our lives where we are so angry, so frustrated we want to SCREAAMMMMM.  In most cases if you're scared of prison (like moi) you hit things that can't hit back or cry (not weakness, that's the bruises they was gon' tote if they couldn't cause ya your job).

When I hear this song I wanna jump up in the office and say, HEY YOU, YEA YOU - RUDE INGRATE THAT DOESN'T HAVE MANNERS - YOU GOT ONE MORE TIME TO ACT LIKE YOU WERE RAISED BY WOLVES...lol

There are so many instances to get you to this point.  Maybe someone you trusted betrayed you for the "final" time.  You want to forgive them again but you're like - seriously, I'll going to give you some time to walk away from me before I end up on Snapped.

Or...a random person starts psychoanalyzing you and telling you who you are and what will make you better.

Or...doctors keep telling diagnosing you without ever really giving you real treatment but that bill is EVER SO REAL.

But what I also took from this song  was...

people are experiencing things we'll never know they go through, and if we find out maybe we'll never understand.  That's the challenge with being an individual that has to co exist with billions of other individuals.  Since we may never understand, the least we could do is not judge.  Step aside and let me/them/us/yourself wild out a little bit, because sometimes that's what keeps us sane.

Well that's what I take from this song, lol, You may be like, what - totally didn't get that.  That's okay, I'm different but I make no apologies.

Share your thoughts with me, I want to know.