All is groovy

One of my favourite songs ever - The 59th Street Bridge Song by Simon and Garfunkel:

Slow down,
you move too fast
You've got to make
the morning last
Just kicking down
the cobbled stones
Looking for fun
and feelin' groovy

Hello lamp-post
whatcha knowin'?
I've come to watch
your flowers growin'
Ain't you got no
rhymes for me
Dwit-n-doo-doo
Feelin' groovy

I got no deeds to do
no promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy
and ready to sleep
Let the morning thyme drop
all its petals on me
Life I love you
all is groovy

Since age 14 when I first heard that song I've been longing for that feeling in the third verse: got no deeds to do, no promises to keep. I rarely get there, though I keep promising myself just that to keep going. I think if you walk around always feeling like there is so much more to do and you're not doing it, then however much you want to it's very difficult when the time comes to let it go. So, for the last few months I've been exploring living with carrying less instead. Enjoying that feeling during the deeds to do, promises to keep.

Something like flowing with the stream whenever possible instead of always fighting the current. It's not so easy for me and the word that keeps coming back to me is courage. Courage to relax when all I can think of is run!, courage to sink into the feelings I avoid, courage to take time for myself even though all voices inside say no!, courage to be who I am regardless of what I think the world thinks of me. To be here, however little that place resembles where I think I should be.

And well, it doesn't work very often... :) I'm learning though. Life, I love you, all is groovy.

Comments

[Emma]

Oh, I know exactly what you are talking about! I had those same thoughts when I traveled to Amsterdam in August, when I finally had time to sit down and think for a change. I learned alot about courage, creativity, relaxing and being myself, but it's hard to take those thoughts into everyday life, don't you think? I'm trying though, and some days it works pretty good. :-)

[caroline]

Tack Emma! Oh, I'm glad you could relate. Creativity yes, that definitely comes into it. Yes, it's very difficult! Worth a try though, for those days :)

[Abbey]

I too totally get what you're saying -- it really is about courage isn't? -- to live, to be in the moment, to take pleasure in THIS moment. I too fail at this more often than I succeed, but it is the trying that counts.

[studio wellspring]

i love this song. and your blog is utterly divine!

[caroline]

Thanks studio wellspring! Yours is lovely too :)

[caroline]

Thanks Abbey - yeah, the trying is what counts. I lose sight of that too quite often and am so happy when I find it again! :)