Don't Want To Be A Link In This Kind Of Chain: Chain Of Fools By Aretha Franklin

Yesterday, something that I was working once again fell a part. I won't go into details about what it is was and why it happen but one's thing's for sure, it was a very important thing for me. Once again I feel that fate threw a monkey wrench in the works. Right now I feel that I'm being put back in a sick carousel and made to go on another bad ride. That feeling of being helplessly chained to a bad fate reminds me of Aretha Franklin's song "Chain Of Fools".

Fate has a way of dealing a bad hand to people and sadly many of them play out that hand to the bitter end. Every lost soul to a bad fate is like a bad link to chain and if you ask me that links on the chain gets longer and longer. Many of these poor souls are the ones who either weren't smart enough or brave enough to the shackles. As a result, though they live out lives, in the inside they're dying little by little.

That's why a lot of us just can't accept the cards dealt to us by fate and that includes me. I know I'm being stubborn but it's simply because I'm tired of repeating this kind of life and I too want to break the shackles that keeps me from getting off this sick ride. Right now I've been dealt another setback but though I'm hurting from it, I am determine to overcome it. They that you can change things if you are determined to do so. I'm doing this because I simply don't want to be link in this kind of chain and I want to break free from it.

Saying A Prayer In The Hope That Things Will Be All Right: Say A Little Prayer For You By Aretha Franklin

You know the uncertainties that a person faces everyday always puts him or her on edge. You wake and try to be positive only to have something hit you from nowhere, leaving you annoyed or paranoid. That’s the reason why I pray before I go to bed in the hopes that things will get better. Some progressives will dismiss this as a childish thing but at least it gives me some sort of assurance that everything will be all right. With that in mind, I remember the song, “Say A Little Prayer For You” by Aretha Franklin.

It's been a rough 10 years for me and to add insult to injury, more problems just seem to pop up. I'm no saint but there times when I get frustrated because I try so hard and pray so hard only to have the opposite happen. As much as I don't want to loose faith, there are times when it gets frustrating and you fight the urge to curse or worse blaspheme. I know that we have to take bad as well as the good because that what life is. My gripe is that there's been too much of the bad and too little of the good.

Still, that doesn't mean that I take for granted the people and things that I still have with me. Not a day goes by that don't worry about everybody's safety because that last thing that I want is another tragedy. I guess that's the reason why I keep on trying and keeping praying in the hopes that things will get better and the storm will come to pass. In the mean time, I'll do what I can to help turn things around. Apart from that, I still say a little prayer.