Sara Bareilles - Brave

I love this song but maybe even more the video.  The "fat" dude and the gym guy are my personal heroes.

The words of this song have been speaking to my heart since the first time I heard it, and I keep thinking about them.  I wish I were brave in this way, and maybe that's what this writing should be about.

The parts of this song that speak to me the most...

"You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love..."

"Nothing's gonna hurt you the way that words do when they settle 'neath your skin, kept on the inside & no sunlight..."

"Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you live. Maybe one of these days you can let the light in."

I've been working so very hard for the last couple years on getting out of the cage I found myself in- mentally & physically.  It's not easy work and it won't be over for a long time, if ever.  I think of that part almost every day when I am in the gym- my fat butt riding the bike, working the elliptical, dancing the moves in Zumba, sweating with my trainer- it's all me trying to break out of the physical cage I put myself in.  Mentally, well that's a whole 'nother Oprah (as I like to say), but I try. I have glimpses of light shining down on me and then I smile a little.  It's enough to hold me over.

And as for being brave, well I'm not but I'm trying to be.  I'm going to keep trying to put this all into words and "say what I want to say.

R :)