Gravity

John Mayer may officially have a piece of my heart, because everytime I hear his music I feel like my heart is singing his lyrics, in particular the song Gravity.

I'm not certain as to what his lyrics meant to him, but for me "Gravity" can be anything that pulls me down and prevents you from having the best thing possible for your life. I suppose that it can be a man/woman (in the plural, too), family, food, substances,you....but really anything that prevents a person from reaching her/his full purpose in life. I personally am a big believer in purpose.

I often meet people who ask me how they are supposed to know what their purpose is. The answer is the same for everyone. Whatever that thing is that is pulling at your heartstrings or nagging at your soul, whatever you have a passion for, or whatever you love doing and would do for free and still love doing it, that is more than likely your purpose. Particularly if what you love doing will benefit others just as much as, if not more than, yourself. After all, "no man is an island unto himself," and our lives are not our own (and all of that other good stuff).

One of the best things to do, especially at the beginning of each year, is to write down and (re)establish your goals, passions, and desires. Just as we change each year so do our goals and desires; so, what you wrote 5 years ago may be vastly or moderately different from what you want now.

Writing your vision down for your life helps to get it out of your head and it goes from just being an idea to being an actual possibility, its like writing a business plan and it helps you to work out all the kinks once you start writing out how you wish to go about establishing each goal.

I say all of this just because I find that when it comes to my "Gravity," that/those thing(s) that pull(s) me down, I am able to better recognize it and get rid of it when it doesn't line up with my goals and my vision for my life. If I may go Johnny Cochran for a moment, "If it doesn't fit, its gotta quit."

Its not always easy to cut those things out of my life that are not helping me to succeed and grow, but (eventually) I do cut them out and then, well, then I'm able to soar to new heights without all of that "Gravity" holding me down and its easier to breathe.

Plus, when I stay where the light is, mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually (this means I monitor my thoughts and try not to be negative, I watch the company I keep, my feelings, and my relationship with God (renewing my mind constantly), I finally reach my goals. And thats a great feeling.

Paz

The Lyrics Are:

Gravity
Is working against me
And gravity
Wants to bring me down

Oh I'll never know
What makes this man
With all the love
That his heart can stand
Dream of ways
To throw it all away

Oh Gravity
Is working against me
And gravity
Wants to bring me down

Oh twice as much
Ain’t twice as good
And can't sustain
Like one half could
It's wanting more
gonna send me to my knees

instrumental

Oh twice as much
Ain’t twice as good
And can't sustain
Like one half could
It's wanting more
gonna send me to my knees

Oh gravity
Stay the hell away from me
Oh gravity
Has taken better men than me
Now how can that be?

Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where the light is
C’mon keep me where keep me where the light is