Be Good to Yourself
Jul 13, 2005 14:53:55 GMT -5
Post by icubud on Jul 13, 2005 14:53:55 GMT -5
Way back to the day of the Challenger disaster, I had my own personal disaster that evening. I was involved in a car wreck. I was a passenger with 2 others plus a driver.
I was the only one injured – I had 3 burst fractures of my vertebrae. I could not lift my legs up.
During this time I found out my friends were not my friends at all. No one ever visited me while in the hospital for 3 weeks and again for a week a year later. They never came by my house. The one time we got together they actually said it was my fault they did not come around, I was too down and it bothered them. I became very depressed and really wanted to get well and move on.
The highlight of the summer was the long awaited release of Raised On Radio. I stayed at the store with other fans for 5 hours before the store opened to get the first copy. The radio was playing the first release from the album (boy that dates me!) and it was “Be Good to Yourself!”
That song, the words, and that attitude were a much needed medicine for me. In fact that song has become my favorite Journey song and to this day if things start getting rocky it is the first song on. (I do listen to it when I am happy too.)
That song became my theme I decided I needed to move on mentally and emotionally even though I was still pretty much home bound. When I was able to start work again and deal with new people and employees (I was a restaurant manager at the time). Stress (“drive me crazy”), jerks (“nobody else will”), too many things considered a priority with people yelling for help and attention (“your walking a high wire”) and petty jealousy and bickering (“caught in a crossfire”). Man oh man did the song ring soooooo true!
Years later when I learned what SP was going through when he penned the words to this song I understood how he could “understand”. I am absolutely certain it became his theme and to this day he is living his life with this goal in mind.
I was the only one injured – I had 3 burst fractures of my vertebrae. I could not lift my legs up.
During this time I found out my friends were not my friends at all. No one ever visited me while in the hospital for 3 weeks and again for a week a year later. They never came by my house. The one time we got together they actually said it was my fault they did not come around, I was too down and it bothered them. I became very depressed and really wanted to get well and move on.
The highlight of the summer was the long awaited release of Raised On Radio. I stayed at the store with other fans for 5 hours before the store opened to get the first copy. The radio was playing the first release from the album (boy that dates me!) and it was “Be Good to Yourself!”
That song, the words, and that attitude were a much needed medicine for me. In fact that song has become my favorite Journey song and to this day if things start getting rocky it is the first song on. (I do listen to it when I am happy too.)
That song became my theme I decided I needed to move on mentally and emotionally even though I was still pretty much home bound. When I was able to start work again and deal with new people and employees (I was a restaurant manager at the time). Stress (“drive me crazy”), jerks (“nobody else will”), too many things considered a priority with people yelling for help and attention (“your walking a high wire”) and petty jealousy and bickering (“caught in a crossfire”). Man oh man did the song ring soooooo true!
Years later when I learned what SP was going through when he penned the words to this song I understood how he could “understand”. I am absolutely certain it became his theme and to this day he is living his life with this goal in mind.
