Lyrics:-
'Oh, I think I've landed where there are miracles at work' - Berryman,
Buckland, Champion & Martin
Song
Choice:- I'm not the greatest of Coldplay fans, as you well know if you are a
regular blog reader - as all of Martin's 'Woah-Woahing' gets on my nerves after
a while and I've found and their albums tend to grind on a bit following a
promising start, with only a couple of stand out tracks a piece. I reckon I could put
together a 10-song 'Greatest Hits' album with 'A Head Full of Dreams' as the
opening track as it's become one of my favourite Coldplay anthems since it's release in December 2015.
It's got great lyrics too and 'You can see the change you wanted' is the one that rings true
with me for today's blog. As it's the 'Seeing' part that folks struggle with
most I've found.
Visualising
your goals, is a difficult thing if you're not creative or can see things in your head three
dimensionally. For instance, if you are buying a new car now-a-days, you can build it
online, choose the finish, add extras and even do a virtual test drive (How boring) - yet
when I bought my BMW 328i M-Sport in 1997, I knew it was Boston Green had Black
Leather Seats and would go like stink - and it lived up to all my dreams and
more, I knew it because I could see it in my head.
Technology
I believe is taking the creativity and spontaneity out of our lives IMO.
I
bought a Michelin Road Atlas to get me to Portugal in 2004 as the 3G network
and Google didn't provide a route back then and still got there and I enjoyed
the minute-by-minute surprises along the way.
It
didn't stop me dreaming though as my head is full of them. And now-a-days I spend a lot of my
time thinking, creating and visualising my next life challenge. Sometimes it's even
better than doing the real thing I've found, and wouldn't it be disappointing to
have already lived our dreams out in a virtual reality world. You know, the one where football is interesting and Man City finally buy a
Happy Slumbers...
Happy Slumbers...
Rory Coleman - 990 Marathons - 244 Ultras - 14 Marathon des Sables
9 Guinness World Records - 8,533 Days' Alcohol Free - 382 Days' post GBS
& 1 Inspirational Running Memoir - Get your copy here.
Location:- Boscastle, Cornwall
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