R.I.P Chris Rea.
First up, we have a perennial but seasonal favorite:
Next, the song for which he is probably most well known in the U.S. He wrote it for his little sister, who has suffered her first serious teenage heartbreak.
Now, the fact is,seventeen is a rough age for most everyone. I was no different. At 17, I was being slapped around by life and death, love and loss, elation and despair, and some times it seemed like they all came at me at the same time, from all directions. Seventeen is like that - stuff seems to move fast. That's because, while you have lived an entire lifetime at 17, it's not the lifetime of later years that is more tempered.
At 17, you are on the cusp of leaving everything you've ever known behind and marching off into the Brave New Unknown with your head held high, and hoping that doesn't make it too visible of a target. You don't realize that the entire "lifetime" you've seen so far is only the tip of an iceberg, a drip in an ocean, and that what is coming will bring more of the same, and much stronger. Your coming lows are going to be even lower, but the coming highs are going to be much higher than anything you've known up to that point.
At 17, you've not yet had enough experience to realize you've not yet had much experience... and you've not got the experience yet to understand that time will temper all.
It's not over, it's just begun... and what a wild ride it's going to be! Might as well sit back and enjoy it, but be careful to keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times...
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First up, we have a perennial but seasonal favorite:
Next, the song for which he is probably most well known in the U.S. He wrote it for his little sister, who has suffered her first serious teenage heartbreak.
Now, the fact is,seventeen is a rough age for most everyone. I was no different. At 17, I was being slapped around by life and death, love and loss, elation and despair, and some times it seemed like they all came at me at the same time, from all directions. Seventeen is like that - stuff seems to move fast. That's because, while you have lived an entire lifetime at 17, it's not the lifetime of later years that is more tempered.
At 17, you are on the cusp of leaving everything you've ever known behind and marching off into the Brave New Unknown with your head held high, and hoping that doesn't make it too visible of a target. You don't realize that the entire "lifetime" you've seen so far is only the tip of an iceberg, a drip in an ocean, and that what is coming will bring more of the same, and much stronger. Your coming lows are going to be even lower, but the coming highs are going to be much higher than anything you've known up to that point.
At 17, you've not yet had enough experience to realize you've not yet had much experience... and you've not got the experience yet to understand that time will temper all.
It's not over, it's just begun... and what a wild ride it's going to be! Might as well sit back and enjoy it, but be careful to keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times...
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake