Stop This Train

"Stop This Train"

No I'm not color blind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an open mind but...
I just can't sleep on this tonight
Stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly won't someone stop this train

Don't know how else to say it, don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own

Stop this train
I want to get off and go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't but honestly won't someone stop this train

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find away to say that life has just begun
Had a talk with my old man
Said help me understand
He said turn 68, you'll renegotiate
Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
Don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train

See once in a while when it's good
It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing
'til you cry when you're driving away in the dark.

Singing stop this train I want to get off and go home again
I can't take this speed it's moving in
I know I can't
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train

(think I got 'em now)





John Mayer said it best in this song; sometimes we wish we could be younger forever, but we know that we can't stop time or the train of life. I joke about being old because today i turned 25. Sometimes i feel like John Mayer in this song; i didn't want to say i'm 25 because i thought i was only good at being young, but there is so much more to getting older. living, dreaming, loving, growing, experiencing love and loss, laughing, remembering, dancing, getting your fist gray hair, being a part of history is just a few things with getting older. if you're lucky (blessed, i don't believe in luck, but it sounds good) you'll see or feel a life from the very beginning, you'll grow in wisdom and love, find and experience success and purpose.

i have a cousin who can't wait to turn 30 and i admire that and everything else about her, but its awesome to want to get older! Samuel Ullman said "nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. we grow old by deserting our ideals. years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." i think that's an amazing way to look at life. i still get excited when the sun is shining, i laugh when i see a rainbow, i giggle when i see a cute guy, i blush when i get embarrassed and these are the things that will be with me forever because its who i am and age doesnt determine who i am, just how many times ive been around the sun.

there are so many things that come with age and reaching goals is one of them. ive reached a goal i set for myself at the beginning; loose 25 pounds...DONE!! i don't wish to be younger or 17 again, i want this train to go full speed ahead! the Bible says

"to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. (Ecclesiates 3:1-12, KJV)

don't miss out on the Word, it'll bless you! instead of not wanting to get older, feel blessed and privileged that you've been given another year when you've deserved nothing! take hold of the things that come with age. love your laugh lines it means youre laughing, embrace your gray hair, the phaeomelonin is fading and the cells are gradually producing less pigment (dont ask why i know that), etc. the thing we have learned to see as bad or undesirable with age are the tings that tell stories.

let every day become part of the story of triumph for the following generations.