Going about my normal stuff today i've had the radio on in the kitchen. At least twice now i've caught a so called patriotic song being played. Of course they are being played, being the day that it is. I would assume that most stations are playing them. Got to thinking as i was listening to "God Bless The USA" why they don't play them more often? What would be wrong with that? Why wait for today when the coverage is everywhere?
After, they were played all the time. As time has passed of course they've fallen by the wayside as peoples thoughts and feelings have also. I know WBLI played Whitneys version of the National Anthem everyday at noon for quite awhile. Not sure if they still do, will have to check in half an hour. But even i was like enough already. Maybe if they changed it up, played different patriotic songs at that time. But then you'd be expecting it anyway. I think when it just catches you, your more likely to stop and think. To take stock of what you have. What other people may not. What you lost or other people may have lost. It hits you and you feel a little different. Your view changes. Your attitude changes.
It's said quite often how people have forgotten and don't feel like they did after. Time marches on and life gets in the way. It becomes easy to forget and fall back into the everyday. Thats the way of the world. Other things become more important. Or seem more important. If the stations decided once in awhile to throw on a patriotic song what would be wrong with that? If it caught you by surprise and made you stop and think would it be a bad thing? When "God Bless The USA" ended I can't say I felt good exactly just content. That i'm here, and lucky to have what i do. And maybe a little more compassion for other people because you never know what life has brought them. Who couldn't use that feeling every now and again?
No comments:
Post a Comment