It's International Women's Day. And to celebrate that, the Any Other Woman ladies asked for advice for the next generation of women.
I thought long and hard about what to write. So many thoughts flooded through my head. I have written divorce and bereavement to death. What else did I have? So I thought back to being 18, all those years ago. I remembered all that I thought I knew, and didn't know, about life. And I remembered this.
This song (poem? thing? call it what you will) was HUGE in the summer of 1999. If you were alive then, you will remember it (unless you were living under a rock). (And if you weren't alive then, what are you doing reading this?)
I left high school in the summer of 1999. I WAS the class of 99. And we thought this song was the bees knees. We thought it would give us all the wisdom we needed to get through our lives. It was even printed on the back cover of our yearbooks.
Well, nearly 15 years after leaving school, I can say that the Sunscreen song has not completely helped me avoid any pitfalls or sadness. I have learnt a lot of things myself. But the combination of it's advice and my own, I think, is a winner. At least for me.
http://anyotherwoman.com/2014/03/iwd2014-sunscreen/
I still think that song is the bees knees. You've reminded me just how much I love it and all it says. Beyond the fact it reminds me of the hazy days of my early teens, the advice in it still fits. I don't think any advice can stop us from going through sadness and pitfalls, but whenever I hear that song it reminds me that this is ok. It's all part of life.
ReplyDeleteYour version of it is wonderful. It honestly is. I think someone should make it into a song now.