Here We Go (Again)!
It hurts… but it hurts more to stay away. I guess this is only human. I’ve heard someone say that we only change when the pain of changing is less than the pain of staying the same.
Seeing my dad, struggling with his health at 75 years old, his body screaming enough of some food and drink it can no longer process, and still eating and drinking what he shouldn’t, believing pills will save him.
I know how this story ends. Eventually the pills will stop working or backfire, making things even worse. But still, I know better than to get annoyed, because I’ve learned a long time ago that, like a Portuguese old saying goes, “The worst blind person is the one that refuses to see.”
It’s so easy to see solutions for others; but when it comes to our own selves, we can be so blind too. We resist change, crave comfort, the security of what we know, even when it no longer fits us.
This song talks about patterns, karmic cycles, whatever you want to call them. Actions we keep doing, that we know are hurtful, but we just can’t seem to help but doing anyway. But it talks about them with a sense of humour. Seeing the humour, the ridiculous in our darkest and most hurtful patterns is the beginning of the shift. Once we start taking ourselves more lightly, not so seriously, we start opening up space for change.
So Here We Go Again is the beginning of the shift, not only in tone but also in energy. It’s lighter, not so serious or heavy like the other singles. It’s the beginning of the acceptance of what is, so we can finally open space to what can be.
Here we Go Again, available here.