Life's Like This

What’s Life Like by Raphael Saadiq - from Instant Vintage

What’s life like, living without a soul
What’s life like if you’re living without a goal
What’s life like if you don’t even talk to your best friends
What’s life like if you never lend a helping hand
What’s life like if you can’t smell a rose
What’s life like if you’re always posing
What’s life like if you live out of your window
What’s life like if you never touch the world
What’s life like if you’re never saying hi to boys and girls
What’s life like if you’re living on the internet and never touch the world
You gotta be real with yourself, cause you’re living in a jaded world



I dig this song a lot. In fact I use it as a ring tone for a few of my good friends. I just appreciate the lyrics, maybe because I relate to them in some strange way. Some days I just want to take to my bed and sleep the world away and other days pass with so little deviance from routine that I feel almost robotic. And then I break free and find myself in crazy situations and surreal circumstances. But, I believe that’s the nature of life, or at least life as it seems to me.

So the next time I find myself in a dark bar at 2:26 AM, sitting with a professor and a line cook, alternately discussing the NFL, Roman civilization and Reeses peanut butter cups vs. Snickers bars, I’ll embrace it as a part of my crazy life and remember why I love it in the first place. I encourage everyone to do the same. This is me ... touching the world.

--AKIP--