Stand by me!

Did It ever happen to you

While going to work,

Half asleep, eyes half closed,

doing great effort to drive, avoid crowded streets, avoid drivers more sleepy than you, avoid sunrays which are haunting your eyes, making it harder to keep them open,

thinking about your child who started crying since early morrning because he doesn’t want to go to summer camp (i.e. colonie), thinking about the smiles and the scent of your baby, which you grasped just before leaving home, wishing you could come back and spend the rest of your life kissing him and hugging him…

feeling the blues… and chocking throught…

then

suddenly

a very cool DG of a very cool radio station, Light FM, plays a song

a song that would turn you upside doen, lift your spirits so high…

it was Ben E. King: stand by me

I raised the volume

High

Then higher

And higher…

he song reminds me of really good days

Of the lion king, timon and pumbaa

 “When the night has come 
And the land is dark 
And the moon is the only light we see 
No I won't be afraid 
No I won't be afraid 
Just as long as you stand, stand by me 
So Pumbaa, Pumbaa stand by me 
Oh, now, now, stand by me 
Stand by me, stand by me 
If the sky that we look upon 
Should tumble and fall 
And the mountain should crumble to the sea 
I won't cry, 
(Pumbaa) You won't cry? 
(Timon)
Nooo, I won't shed a tear 
Just as long as you stand, stand by me 
So Pumbaa, Pumbaa stand by me 
Oh, stand by me 
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me 
(Frogs)
Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me 
Oh, now, now, stand by me 
Oh, stand by me, stand by me, stand by me “

I Started to sing along in a –really-high voice

And then it was a better world, a better day!

A great smile was slowly blossoming upon my face and all the good thoughts and the positive energy started flowing around

We really forget how small things may turn our day and make it start better

Thinking deeply about work-life-friends-

about a better future, for us and for our families