Funny, the way it is.

Lying in the park on a beautiful day 

Sunshine in the grass, and the children play 

Siren's passing, fire engine red 

Someone's house is burning down on a day like this 

The evening comes and we're hanging out 

On the front step and a car rolls by with the windows rolled down 

And that war song is playing, "why can't we be friends?" 

Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs 

Funny the way it is, if you think about it 

Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out 

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong 

Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song 

The way your mouth feels in your lovers kiss 

Like a pretty bird on a breeze or water to a fish 

A bomb blast brings a building crashing to the floor 

You hear the laughter while the children play war 

Funny the way it is, if you think about it 

One kid walks 10 miles to school, another's dropping out 

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong 

On a soldier's last breath his baby's being born 

Standing on a bridge, watch the water passing under me 

It must've been much harder when there was no bridge, just water 

Now the world is small, remember how it used to be 

With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars 

Watch the sky, the jet planes, so far out of my reach 

Is there someone up there looking down on me? 

Boy chase a bird, so close but every time 

He'll never catch her, but he can't stop trying 

Funny the way it is, if you think about it.

-Dave Matthews Band-

Five days left of 2010. 

So, obviously it's that time you start to look back and think about the year gone by.

I don't have much to say about it. Not here, anyway.

But, it was big. Freakin' fast. But, big.

Ironic. Greater the mass, slower the speed?

Well, I've heard elephants are fast when they want to be.

Ok, that has nothing to do with my point. 

I started the year out (on blogspot) tripping on the Kinks, Shaggy and Jimmy Eat World! :)

I just didn't feel like letting my last post be a random re-post game I saw on The Mraz's page.

So, I was thinking about what to write. 

I don't usually have to "think" about what to post. 

When I feel like, I do.

This time the only feeling I had was, "MANIA will not be my last post. JUST."

I'm probably going to bore some of you with the randomness of this post. 

I apologize.

But, it's my blog. And, I have to admit, even after over a year, it's still mostly for me. 

When I started to force myself to "think" about 2010, it was amusing how the words "Funny, the way it is" just kept coming to mind. You know, I never have, still don't and probably never will understand any of the things I WISH to understand. And there are so many. To sum it up for you, I want to understand why things are the way they are. I don't.

OK. That just sounds stupid in retrospect. 

No one does.

(I really hate this. You know, when you think you've thought of something superbly profound and then you write it down or think about it again and all it does is sound "stupid" for you. I don't like it. It happens too often.)

Ok, well anyway.. moving on (or back-- to the point?) 

'Funny, the way it is' is one of my personal favourtie Dave Matthews Band songs. 

And it's all that came to mind.

Have you ever experienced loving a song, listening to it (many times), loving it every time you've listened to it, but overall, you've never really taken it all in. For instance, I think today was the first time I really paid attention to this song. Lyrics. Beats. Rhythm. Music. Video. Everything. 

I saw what it was really saying. 

It's pretty brilliant. And it IS funny, the way it is. It's ironic too, but it's definitely funny.

2010 has been pretty epic. It's been quite the close to a decade or start to a decade. 

Yes, I'm still confused about how to count decades!

I'm not going to recount the year, for those of you who're still reading, for whatever reason you're still reading!

I'm just going to say that it was every adjective, colour and song you can think of.

And, I know there's a huge possibility 2011 is going to be similar. 

If it is. I can't wait.

If it's better. I hope I can take it!

If it's worse. It too shall pass.

For what has been, I'm (mostly) thankful.

For the parts I'm not so thankful for, I've accepted.

For what is, I'm happy and gathering courage.

For what will be, I'm willing. (ish)

Here's to just another year gone by.
In itself, an entire lifetime.