Everything Else Seems So Small

It's funny but my fiance and I both agreed how real-to-life country music is. Very few artists spice it up with everything this culture says is important in life. To me, country music holds the keys to the true American heart and it's just...real. I think Brad Paisley's song, Country Music, explains it best:

"Did you ever want to say I'm sorry or I love you,
But you don't know how.
Well, this is Country music...and we do.
Turn it on, turn it up and sing along.
This is real, this is your life in a song."

Seriously, it's real life. It's raw, it's wonderful. Fiance and I were even talking about when Carrie Underwood came out with the song, "Before He Cheats," and how so many Christians were in an uproar because, "cute little Carrie took a turn off the deep end singing about destroying her cheating boyfriend's truck."

But it's so easy to get religious about it that you miss the fact THAT'S LIFE! I've seen so many girls who have gotten cheated on and it destroyed their lives. Some of them have even gone so far as to do things like that because that's the last of their dignity they have left to prove. Now, is it right to do that? Absolutely not. But is that what happens in life? 100%!

There. So I put my two cents in about country music to lead into this next transition and post this song below. Omg, I just heard it for the first time today and it motivated me to keep pressing on despite the whirlwind of circumstances that have been facing me. Fiance said earlier in the week, "You know, it's easy for us to forget all the blessings we have when our situations get tough. I mean, hey! I got a phone, you got a phone; we both got unlimited text and minutes to call each other. We got skype...I get to see you whenever I want...that alone makes me blessed."

When he said that, it really helped to get my eyes off of the circumstances and problems of life to truly realize that, "Sometimes that mountain you've been climbin' is just a grain of sand."

So the next time it gets super easy to focus too much on the problems we are facing and how insurmountable they are in the moment, listen to these words of Underwood:

It's so easy to get lost inside
A problem that seems so big at the time
It's like a river thats so wide
It swallows you whole
While you're siting 'round thinking 'bout what you can't change
And worrying about all the wrong things
Time's flying by
Moving so fast
You better make it count 'cause you cant get it back

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
Is just a grain of sand
And what you've been up there searching for forever
Is in your hands
Oh when you figure out love is all that matters after all
It sure makes everything else seem so small

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