3. If I Were a Melody

I'd like to take you all on a journey tonight. Don't worry. just a short journey through what I would sound like if I were a melody. Do yourself a favor and scroll down to the player and push play. You would also do yourself a favor to listen to the entire song, it's pretty amazing.

There's a scene in one of my favorite movies that reminds me of this. It is where tonight's inspiration came from. Have you seen The Holiday? Do yourself another favor and go rent it. But the scene is between Iris (Kate Winslet), the brave woman from Surrey, England who travels to L.A. to spend her holiday getting over someone, and Myles (Jack Black), the struggling musician who is always the nice guy, and they have this cute little friendship. The scene I am referring to is where Myles is composing a song for the character Arthur to walk into a celebration event of his career achievements. Myles starts playing a melody for the event and Iris says, "that sounds like him!" Myles responds, "I also wrote one that sounds like you... Iris if you were a melody... I used only the good notes." OH GOSH! Gets me every time.

So, friends, I am deeming myself worthy of the melody you are listening to as mine. Me. Rissa. I am not sure how it came to be, if I chose it or it chose me, I guess it will forever remain a mystery. No I never did well at writing poems, but that rhyme was sick! So I listened to it about 67 times, cried a little, and then shared it with my mom. Of course that's the expected action, tell your mother!

My text said, "I found it!"

Mom, "Found what?"

"The song I will meet my groom at the altar with!"

"Awwww!"

Shared the link with her and said, "Headphones, stat!"

Mom replies, "EPIC!"   "Got teary!"   "So perfect!" (Did my mom just say epic?)

There you have it folks. The song that is me, if I were a melody.