Words that resonate deeper with time
Dating, wooing, trying everything in the book to get this girl to like me. I pop in the soundtrack for the movie, Stand By Me, and play the title track. Giving it my best Ben E. King, I harmonize pretty well, hamming it up for the lovely girl in the passenger seat of my 1988 Chevrolet S-10 pickup. We are falling in love, and all I want is to stand by her and have her stand by me.
Fast forward 25 years. We are married…still. Twenty-five years on June 3rd. Two kids, eleven abodes in five states during that time, scores of great trips, hundreds of dates, great opportunities, significant accomplishments, and several challenges, most notably one illness that has been going for sixteen years now.
Stand by me.
Yes, I do still want to stand by her and have her stand by me. But now there’s more. Beyond the crooning of a lovesick college kid, now these words resonate with the joys and the pains of life. Some, we were naïve about; some just happened; and some were self-inflicted, as it is with everyone. Still, most of our marriage has been harmonious and fortunate, even downright fun!
But, we have lived long enough through the good and the bad to hear the resonance of a deeper note in this song.
Stand by me.
*from the original blog post June 3, 2016
Worth Repeating
Love may not actually make the world go around, but you can get around in the world with love.
-Anonymous
