Still Believe the Best is Yet to Come

     Ever hear of a little band called Red? Well I heard them for the first time like a year ago when I saw this amazing routine done to one of their songs. Wish I could say that I immediately fell in love with them...because I didn't...but they did grow on me. And now I really appreciate a lot of their songs and respect them as a band {which is a huge compliment coming from me because I don't respect a whole lot of artists out there...I mean I like a lot of them but it takes a lot for me to respect them.} 
     Anywhoosers the reason I bring them up is they have a song on their most recent album "Until We Have Faces" called  "Best is Yet to Come." And, at the risk of sounding so cliche and so cheesy that it will make you want to throw up, it really spoke to me. {too bad that does sound really cheesy and kind of makes me a little sick to my stomach but there just isn't any other way to put it} Unfortunately I don't know what the composers of the song's original intent was, but I did take my own interpretation from it.
     Every year at this time {right before a new school year starts} I get a little nervous. Like I don't want to move on because I'm afraid that if I keep growing up the best moments of my life will be behind me, which is also the reason that I may or may not hold on to things a little longer than I should. But then I heard this song, I thought to myself "Holy crap! Red is reading my mind...freaky." And it helped me to grasp the idea that the best is yet to come. There are so many things that I have yet to experience that most definitely the best is yet to come.

Best is Yet to Come

Afraid it won't come 'round again
Afraid to move on
Wishing I could go back when
Everything was easier and meaningful to me

Wanting all we left behind
Like it's the answer
An hour glass we can't rewind
Holding back the life that I've denied for so long

Can I find my way to you?
And After all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come

A photograph's still in your hands
Afraid to let it go
The minutes rain like grains of sand
And time is just a war that's stealing dreams from within
So come and take them back again

And After all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come

I won't turn around
Let it all slip away
I'm never backing down
Cause tomorrow's a new day
And everything can change

And After all that we've been through
And after all we left in pieces
I still believe our lives have just begun
Cause now the past can be outrun
And I know you are the reason
I still believe the best is yet to come

I still believe the best is yet to come
The best is yet to come
I still believe the best is yet to come 

     So like I said before...I don't know the composer's original intent for the meaning of this song but that was just my interpretation of it, what I came away with. I like to believe that the sign of a truly fantastic song is its ability to speak to many people but not necessarily have them all walking away with the same interpretation of its meaning.

I still believe the best is yet to come....

Thank you Red for this.

DONE, DONE, and DONE!!

     Officially my summer has now begun! I turned in my last paper today and there are no finals in sight!! I am now a sophomore in college!!!!!!!! So excited! But I am even more excited to sit back, relax, and enjoy my summer.
     I am so glad that I decided against doing summer semester. I was really burned out on school these last couple of weeks. I know for sure that I just wouldn't have tried as hard in summer and then my GPA would have suffered and no one wants that now do they?
      Still cannot get over that I am no longer a Freshman...it feels so weird, I swear that I am not old enough to be a sophomore yet. This growing up thing is a really surreal experience I gotta say. But there is nothing you can do to stop it so might as well lean back and enjoy the ride. Although there are some times when I really want to stay a little kid (granted those times come when I have to pay taxes or pay for gas stuff like that) but then I realize that growing up kind of kicks butt. It's really liberating when you really think about it. The best thing about this growing- up- being- a- college- kid- thing is you can be as pretentious as you want and people just expect it of you because you are, after all, a college student. It's fantastic (not saying that I am pretentious all the time but I will be honest here, sometimes I say some pretty pretentious things).
     On a side note I have quite possibly fallen in love with Blake Shelton...well at least his music. And normally I don't listen to a whole lot of country music, in fact I really dislike most of it (i.e. Taylor Swift...eeeewww) however there is something that I hear in Blake Shelton's music that I love...who knows what it is, it's an anomaly even to me. Just a fun fact for the day. Also I have fallen back in love with Maroon 5. I mean I have always loved them but I think I got sick of their music for a little bit there and stopped listening to them, but after watching a couple episodes of The Voice on NBC I have fallen back in love with Adam Levine (He's just so ridiculously funny!) and thus my love for Maroon 5 was rekindled. P.S. watch The Voice...it's fun :)
     Well I should probably wrap up this rather random post of mine. Until next time my friends. Loves!