Blog 3007 – 01.23.2024
Come Monday
Fifty years ago Jimmy Buffet had his first big hit with today’s song. He passed last year and will probably be best remembered for another of his hit songs, Margaritaville. Both are classic Jimmy Buffet, but of the two I prefer the first. I suppose that is because it is the more hopeful of the two, looking forward instead of backward.
The Old Testament says, “Young men see visions and old men dream dreams.” Both visions and dreams can be forward looking and hopeful, still I suppose it helps to stay young at heart. Young people always are looking forward and older people tend to spend more time looking back. Both viewpoints can cause us to miss the most important time of our lives – now.
In today’s song the young lover sings, “Come Monday everything will be alright, come Monday I’ll be holding you tight.” In Margaritaville, the sadder perhaps wiser former lover laments his lost love and is wasting away stepping on pop tops and blowing out flip fops. The era of pop tops was from 1963 to 1980. The original inexpensive flip flops that came out in 1962 are still with us and with no pop tops to step one can get even longer mileage per pair.
Seize the day (Carpe Diem) for tomorrow is promised to no one and the past was never meant to be the end of the story. It is good for people, younger and older, not to focus so much on either the past or the future that we miss “The Present.” Each day is a gift from our loving and infinite source.
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White
Come Monday
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