Is Our Destiny the Repeat Button?
- donnadawkin
- Aug 24, 2023
- 2 min read
Listening to the local radio today while running errands.. and this song comes on. I’m singing along and we get to the,
“What are we doing here? We take the pressure, and we throw away Conventionality belongs to yesterday There is a chance that we can make it so far We start believing now that we can be who we are (Be who we are)
Grease is the word..”
And I wondered how many generations roll through the same painful coming of age over and over and over…? Wait, is that an oxymoron, painful and coming of age?
A song released in 1978, for a story based in 1959 and I’m still relating to those lyrics in 2023…
I’m fairly certain even though we are experiencing a much more permissive era (and not for the first time – check your history books!) it still doesn’t seem like we are any closer to feeling at home in our skins. Perhaps as a society, are we doomed to pilot this right of passage – this desire need to bust out of the masses; spike up that purple mohawk, surf the mosh pit… to somehow be separate. Or is just that we want to be seen?
Conventionality, banality, beige reality – not my favorite palette. I yearn for purples and reds, passion and vibration.. honest though you would pass me on the street and see a middle aged mom. AND is that this issue?? I don’t want you making assumptions, and so desire to attire myself with a visual representation that we are not the same! Oh my, I just went and made assumptions about you!!
When will it come natural to be who we are? Grease is the word 😉
as always I enjoy a good discussion – let me know what you think! and your favorite color 🙂
Enjoy this clip of the Bee Gee’s performing it live in 1997, Olivia Newton-John in the audience and a lyrical and video nod to Frankie Valli’s version from the movie. Class act!
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