Be Color Blind, Don't Be So Shallow

Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don't be so shallow

Act 129:

“It’s never too late… To Be Free

Too often we make our own cages. Of the mind. Or the heart. We have the key to unlock them. We only need the will to use it. Set your mind free. Make your own decisions. Unlock your heart, love freely. Unlock your mind, live freely.” – Patrick Lindsay

Quote in book: “Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.” ~ Nelson Mandela

When I saw this Act, I didn’t really know what to write about. I started to write about this country being free and our soldiers fighting a war, but I didn’t like where that was going. I’m not in the mood to stand on my pedestal and rant. So – I’ll try to go down the path the Mr. Lindsay has set out for me.

Sometimes we lock ourselves into routine… into these nice neat little boxes of normalcy. I know I do. I sometimes don’t break free from the routine of coming home. Turning on the TV. Turning on my computer, skyping, eating, blogging, sleep, shower, work… then repeat again the next day. I have been doing this (minus the skying and blogging) ever since I graduated from school 2 years ago. I don’t really let myself go or allow myself to be free. I’m lazy and I’m boring. I had to start a blog and read a book to get myself to be open to experiencing new things and to expand my horizons.

During the two years before, I tried to open myself to love and to dating. I tried to be open and give it a chance. I was skeptical about meeting someone online. I didn’t have a good impression of Match.com. I felt like it was high school all over again and you only get picked if you’re really attractive. It’s like getting picked up at a bar. I thought maybe if the computer set me up I’d have a better chance at meeting someone who wouldn’t be so into looks and maybe I could really get to know someone first. So, I signed up for eHarmony.

I didn’t have much success, because I truly didn’t connect with anyone. Maybe I didn’t because I didn’t truly free my mind of all the prejudices that I had about online dating. Maybe I didn’t find anyone because I just wasn’t ready for love. Maybe my head wasn’t ready and my heart knew that. Well now I feel like I’m ready. My mind and my heart are open to it. I am free to love.

Be Free. Open your mind. Open your heart. Release the fear. Release the prejudice. Release your preconceived notions. Be free to experience new things. Be free to accept new ideas. Be free to the differences that we all have. Be free to love.

Mini Trivia

10 Points: Name the Artist and Song referenced in the title and in the beginning of the blog

10 Points: Name The Beatles song that was released in 1995 as part of their The Beatles Anthology documentary. – Note: The title shares it’s name with a Supertramp album

10 Points: Name the Artist and the Song of the lyrics below (Bonus 5 Points if you can name the TV show that had this as it’s Theme song)

Everybody wants to live like they wanna live and
Everybody wants to love like they wanna love and
Everybody wants to be closer to free

And yeah yeah yeah

Everybody wants respect
Just a little bit
And everybody needs a chance once in a while
Everybody wants to be closer to free

10 Points: Name the Original Artist and the Song of the lyrics below (Bonus 10 points if you can name two other Artists who covered this song)

She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too

It's a long day livin' in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy, 'cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart

[Chorus:]
And I'm free…

10 Points: Name the Artist and Song of the lyrics below

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be traveling on now
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see

But if I stayed here with you,GIRL
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change

Ohohohohohhhhh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can’t change

Bye bye, baby, it's been a sweet love, yeah, yeah
Though this feeling I can't change
But please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame

But if I stay here with you, GIRL
Things just couldn't be the same
Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you never change