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Today I found myself playing Lea Salonga's version of "Someone Like You" from the musicale Jekyll and Hyde over and over again.  I'm not of a broadway fan but Cathy is and if I'm not mistaken this song is one of her favorites.  Listening to it makes me melt--the romantic in me awakens and I fall in love again.

I'm neither a lyrics person but slowly, I'm getting my ears tune in to the words of songs.  "Someone Like You" for instance, captures the feeling of love right at the first quarter of a new romance.  The wonder of this song however is that it zaps you back to that time and replays sweet memories as you carry on in the present.  Que romantique!

Here's the song by Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse from Jeckyll & Hyde:

I peer through windows,
Watch life go by,
Dream of tomorrow,
And wonder "why"?

The past is holding me,
Keeping life at bay,
I wander lost in yesterday,
Wanting to fly -
But scared to try.

But if someone like you
Found someone like me,
Then suddenly
Nothing would ever be the same!

My heart would take wing,
And I'd feel so alive -
If someone like you
Found me!

So many secrets
I've longed to share!
All I have needed
Is someone there,

To help me see a world
I've never seen before -
A love to open every door,
To set me free,
So I can soar!

If someone like you
Found someone like me,
Then suddenly
Nothing would ever be the same!

There'd be a new way to live,
A new life to love,
If someone like you
Found me!

Oh, if someone like you
Found someone like me,
Then suddenly
Nothing would ever be the same!

My heart would take wing,
And I'd feel so alive -
If someone like you
Loved me...
Loved me...
Loved me!...

The truth of love.    (btw, <---this icon got me and cathy together!)

Plugged into: Someone Like You
Today's weather is in love Currently watching: Lea Salonga: The Broadway Concert

Brought dad to the airport at 3 am and got home at 4, just in time for the early telecast of Dr. Phil.  This was what struck me which deserves attention and reflection:

"The sign of an unhealthy relationship is the constant pursuing and withdrawing.  A healthy one is being in a plateau..."  Dr. Phil says.

While assisting in the buffering in of students with conflict in their class schedule, I was surfing the net for universities and job opportunities.  In the dozens of windows I opened, I constantly got "performing illegal operation" and I had to send error reports and close and re-open  windows.  What illegal operation was I doing?

Can't shake the Dr. Phil-thought off my mind.  It applies to everything, I guess--not only to relationships but also to your dreams.  When will I reach that steadiness in ideals and passion?

I was once told that I will not grow up to be 30 and that I will marry twice.  That remains to be a riddle for me; I'm getting a feel that it is more of metaphor than a literal divination of the future.  I'm excited to see myself in my 33s-34s.  I want to fast forward my life to see what I would have been.

There's a difference between a steady plateau of serene yet confident acceptance and a plateau of disconcerting mediocrity.  I don't know where I am at right now.  I'd like to believe I'm not in the latter.  Yet, more and more, I'm beginning to think that I am indeed lounging around in an illusory full life.

This is what happens when your sleep is cut in halves.  The things which are meant to be resolved by the unconscious/subconscious interpenetrate wakefulness and the picasso of dreams obscure the logical thinking and feeling processes of reality.

Now zip and back to Imelda.

Currently watching: Ramona S. Diaz's Imelda

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"Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily--weak people, in other words--they stand no chance against [You-Know-Who's] powers!  He will penetrate your mind with absurd ease..."

--Professor Snape
Harry Potter:  The Order of the Phoenix

Plugged into: Brazilian Girls