Don't Be Sad Be Happy - ONE - #49 - 2005 - Jem - They

Introduction

This is a ten-year-old Seven Days In blog post when I was posting a song every day for each year of my life.

The actual post does ramble a bit but it is getting some attention on Seven Days In, and it is a chance to share this amazing song by Jem.

I did a similar thing on Vocal over a series of six playlists which started here:

Don't Be Sad Be Happy - ONE - #49 - 2005 - Jem - They

Hello, I hope your Sunday is going well, though it's just coming up to 9 am here. The weather is very grey, not raining but it has been. I want to do something positive today, something just to make me feel good. This is my 999th post on this blog, the next one will be the thousandth, and the music choice will be limited by the year, and it would be nice to have something positive to report.

It is too easy to fall into lethargy and to look for things to complain about, but there is so much to actually do and discover I don't one to be in that position, however the current weather is one that brings on the seasonal affective disorder (SAD) also known as Winter Depression, and I know if the sun were shining I would feel differently, so I am going to look for sunshine in one form or another and if you feel a little down then do the same. Even going for a walk can help, phone or meet a friend, talking to people is great fun too.

Anyway, I will post the thousandth post this evening rather than rush it tomorrow morning. The song will be from 2006, that is the only certainty.

Homer Did It First

In the musical Odyssey, we have reached year 49. The choices have been fairly arbitrary apart from the fact that every song on the journey is one that I love and They by Jem is no different, almost ghostly in its sound, sounding at first quite normal but with an unknown edge of menace. I don't know if that's what she meant but nearly ten years on it has lost none of its pull for me.

Have a brilliant Sunday and do something to make you smile. I definitely will do and I will be thinking of you, all my friends spread across Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Africa, the USA, Brazil, and of course the UK.

Conclusion

My closing paragraph shows that I was globally connected before I joined up with Vocal, and most of these people I am still in contact with today.

A lot of the stuff I posted on Seven Days In is worth sharing on Vocal, although some of the posts are just a few lines and since I joined Vocal it is mainly about the books that I am reading, if that sort of thing interests you.

Although this was part of a long series on my blog, the stories were only linked by tags. I have many sequenced stories on Vocal which contain direct links so that people can easily find the next or previous one in the series.

My Challenge series is a good example of that. Vocal does allow us to easily group our stories together, and that, along with the excellent search facility enables me to find almost anything that I want on Vocal.

I know this has been a bit rambling, but it was a snapshot of my life ten years ago, so thank you so much for reading.