Yesterday, I saw this Tweet and I had to think for a moment how to answer it. I didn’t want to answer it with the obvious answer for me. U2! I know the words to pretty much everyone of their songs! And I also wanted to answer it with an obvious answer. I thought back to when I was a junior in high school. I remember listening to this CD on loop for months! My senior quote was a lyric from, “No Woman, No Cry.” So this was my answer:
But, additionally, I have been seeing a commercial about going to Jamaica. This song plays in the background:
Hearing this song in the commercial reminds me of when I first injured my knee. It was before surgery and before I got my motorized chair. I had a routine back then, Sean would get me out of bed before his ride came to take him to school. By the time he came home from school, I would be sitting in my wheelchair, “Puzzlin’” (I used to sit under the dining room light and work on a puzzle on a card table I’d put up in the living room. I was on leave from work but my surgery was not scheduled as yet. I appreciated the escapism of doing a puzzle. So, I put playlists on my Apple Music Account and I would sit there and l would, “puzzle” for hours.
I had just added a Bob Marley playlist to my phone because that is a GREAT album! I will never forget that I was straight jammin to that album when Sean came home from school. I was singing along and just doing my puzzle. Sean would come in to the house and go into his bedroom to change out of his school clothes.
He would come out of his room changed and would go to the kitchen to get something to eat out of the refrigerator. I still continued to jam to the album and when he sat down on the couch, he got my attention by telling me that it was weird to come home to hear his mom sing to Bob Marley! I started to laugh and I told him about this album being on loop for months in my car when I was in high school. I told him about my friend who really liked Bob Marley and he was the one who turned me onto it.
We started talking about this specific album and I told him my favorite songs and about my senior quote. I told him that Bob Marley was before my time but he was super cool then! GREAT music lasts!