"If I Die Young"
If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
Uh oh, uh oh
Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother
She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colours, oh and
Life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no
Ain't even grey, but she buries her baby
The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time
If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time
And I'll be wearing white, when I come into your kingdom
I'm as green as the ring on my little, cold finger, I've
Never known the lovin' of a man
But it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand, there's a
Boy here in town who says he'll love me forever,
Who would have thought forever could be severed by
The sharp knife of a short life, well,
I've had, just enough time
So put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls
What I never did is done
A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin'
If I die young, bury me in satin
Lay me down on a, bed of roses
Sink me in the river, at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
Uh oh (uh, oh)
The ballad of a dove (uh, oh)
Go with peace and love
Gather up your tears, keep 'em in your pocket
Save them for a time when you're really gonna need them, oh
The sharp knife of a short life, well
I've had, just enough time
So put on your best boys and I'll wear my pearls
Color Of Your Rainbow
When I listened to this song, I asked myself what else in this life I long to achieve? That I long to experience? To that moment, when I was call by God and close my eyes for the last time, I would say to myself, "You did great, Sufi..you did great.."
There is one guy inspired me by saying, "Sufi, rainbow has 7 colours, how many colour do you have and you want to have?"
I was stunned by his words and it never crossed my mind until I realize that, there is a lot of things in my life that I want to achieve and I don't want to have a life just to wake up and to do my routine and sleep at night, and do the same thing in the next morning. On one sweet day, I would just realize “wow, time flies.. That’s it?! I’m 60 years old granny and I just live my life the same, everyday?”
525,600 minutes
If God want to give my life until I’m 60 years old, so I have another less than 30 years to live. 525,600 minutes per year. Every minutes count and important. The question is, how do I want to make the time of my life to be meaningful and worth living? Who do I need to be to upgrade the quality of life that I long to have.
Sometimes, we feel empowered to live our life larger and bigger because of the dream that we wish may come true. However, reality checked nothing in this world come easy, especially when we always said to ourself that we are not good enough to achieve what we want. We put so much energy on what we CAN’T rather than what we CAN. And then again, don’t you think that is just your belief?
My point of view is, from a woman perspective, nothing in this world can chain us because at the end of the, we are measured by love that we share with others. Just open you heart and your mind and witness the miracles that you have created by making a stand to others. The quality of life that we deserve to have is in the matter of whether we want it or not and we are aware of our choices.
Some women choose to be a full-time housewife and raise her children. Although, she have the education that most girls wish to have, but, she is exercising her choice and give 100% attention to her family. Some of them choose to have that life and sacrificed her dreams and we, as their loves one, could encourage her to live the life that she dream of. See what is possible for her and invite her to have a taste of goodness of life that she deserved.
Consideration
Thousand of reasons were given to sabotaging our dreams. The truth that were lay in front of us, has been covered because we don’t want to face up and handle it. We may feel like other thing is much more important than ourself and that’s why we live the life that we comfort to live by. What kind of stretch that we need to do in order we, could raised the bar and upgrade the quality of life that we demands of? And we simply answered that by asking, “Who’s going to handle the consideration for us?”
Consideration will always be there, that is our mountain that we need to climb. There will be another mountain that we need to climb so that, we could go to the other side. And may, that be our little-wow, bit by bit we conquer our consideration so that, at the end of the day, we really said “kudos to me for having such a WOW-life..”
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