Reaching Out and Holding On

I’m still on that music kick that I was on yesterday and I was sitting here doing some work when the song Run Around by Blues Traveler came on the radio. It’s not as if I don’t hear this song all the time but something tripped my trigger when I heard it today. In fact it was a certain line that did me in. In the end of the second verse the lyrics are as follows:

“But I want more than a touch, I want you to reach me

And show me all the things no one else can see

So what you feel becomes mine as well

And soon if we’re lucky we’d be unable to tell

What’s yours and mine the fishing’s fine

And it doesn’t have to rhyme so don’t you feed me a line”

Lately I’ve had some doubts about my writing abilities. Well, not necessarily my abilities but my choice of topics. I write a lot about relationships and I’ve had some backlash, mostly in the form of I’m too young to know what I’m talking about. I don’t really have a rebuttal and frankly I’m just naturally drawn towards these topics. Maybe I’m a dreamer, maybe I just have good people skills, whatever it is, I seem to be able to write more freely about relationship issues. Now that my own personal neurosis is out of the way on to why I have these lyrics in this post.

I really feel that this song and these lyrics describe how a lot of people, if not all feel. Everyone wants someone to “reach” them. That connection, that bond that feeling of having someone in the world who understands you. Someone to come home to and share your life with. Literally being one. I think its a universal theme.

When it all comes down to it, these are the things that matter. Not petty little things but issues like this. Whether you’ve found something like this or you are looking its important to everybody. Because of  the world we live in we often lose perspective on this and we often overlook the people who truly do love us. They’re often standing right in front of us and we have to not look so hard sometimes and just let it come to us. That’s really all I’ve got for now. Keep this in mind as you go about your searches or celebrate your findings. Only you know whats important to you at the end of the day.