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I hope that this hymn sounds familiar.......
I'm only human, I'm just a woman
help me believe in what I could be
and all that I am, show me the stairway
I have to climb, Lord for my sake
teach me to take one day at a time.
One day at a time, sweet Jesus.
That's all I'm asking from you
just give me the strength to do everyday
what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus,
and tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord help me today, show me the way
One day at a time.
Do you remember when you walked among men?
well, Jesus you know if you're looking below
it is worse now than then
cheating and stealing, violence and crime,
so for my sake, teach me to take
one day at a time.
One day at a time, sweet Jesus
that's all I'm asking from you
just give me the strength to do
everyday what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
and tomorrow may never be mine
Lord help me today show me the way
one day at a time.
This was the hymn which the school intercom used to play every alternate day, never understood why then was much too young, and in later years took it for granted, loved the singer's voice though...I guess it didn't apply then...but if it does apply now...One day at a time, so far so good. Call me an agnostic, but what about tomorrow.... sweet Jesus!!!!
Every time an exam gets over, priorities change, but this time I find the days after exams so scary, change becomes the priority. Why??
And it may be noted, that everything in this hymn is just fine, really. Facts actually: I'm only human, I'm a woman(what does just a woman mean anyways?) and I am a believer so stairways and climbing becomes a little redundant unless the back of my mind, one is thinking that God will pull the ladder away, which requires a confirmation of being a believer. Anyways, moving on....the strength to do everyday what I have to do? Unless one is climbing the mountain or doing something really really bad, which requires strength to live with oneself, strength is pretty much there for everyday life.
The only worry then there is that can be abstracted from this hymn is Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus, and tomorrow may never be mine.
Forget tomorrow never being mine, but the key point is that :
yesterday's gone!!! Its gone, sweet jesus, it will never come back!!!! Why ask God to help us move on unless we also consider Sweet jesus to be the constant from those yesterdays and an accomplish to the crimes to end our lives of those murdered moments, which at times we cherished and at times we hated.
Life as we know it never comes back!!! And while that is fine, at times like these when instead of priorities changing, change becomes the priority, what can be done?
What can anyone (no offense, sweet Jesus, its a whole self preservation thing!) do besides trying to walk blindfolded but carefully and being watchful, precisely because we know that we enter into the unforeseen future with blindfolds to begin with, just hoping to not fall or tumble into a pothole , hoping of not to make the same mistakes but to make new ones each time we try to get a sneak peak to get an insight into the future in the game that must be played blindfolded?
For days like those when an optimistic God says like the slogan Cyrus Barrocha used to say in pepsi advertisment 'tera number bhi aayega' and one keeps the hope intact only to find to have collected 756 crowns, to find that 'number nahi aaya' and 'complaint' that yesterday when you said tomorrow will be mine, but then when tomorrow becomes yesterday, yesterday's gone!! how does one keep the faith?
Does one believe in an optimistic God, or walk blindfolded on Razor's edge? Anyways, the hymn is nice, I wish I had it in audio. And I really wish that after so much of studying within a discipline like Philosophy, I could understand the meaning of this hymn or at any rate try to understand what happened in movies like 'Dil toh pagal hai? Never understood that, and trust me, I tried. Never understood it. What happened there?
that's all I'm asking from you
just give me the strength to do
everyday what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
and tomorrow may never be mine
Lord help me today show me the way
one day at a time.
This was the hymn which the school intercom used to play every alternate day, never understood why then was much too young, and in later years took it for granted, loved the singer's voice though...I guess it didn't apply then...but if it does apply now...One day at a time, so far so good. Call me an agnostic, but what about tomorrow.... sweet Jesus!!!!
Every time an exam gets over, priorities change, but this time I find the days after exams so scary, change becomes the priority. Why??
And it may be noted, that everything in this hymn is just fine, really. Facts actually: I'm only human, I'm a woman(what does just a woman mean anyways?) and I am a believer so stairways and climbing becomes a little redundant unless the back of my mind, one is thinking that God will pull the ladder away, which requires a confirmation of being a believer. Anyways, moving on....the strength to do everyday what I have to do? Unless one is climbing the mountain or doing something really really bad, which requires strength to live with oneself, strength is pretty much there for everyday life.
The only worry then there is that can be abstracted from this hymn is Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus, and tomorrow may never be mine.
Forget tomorrow never being mine, but the key point is that :
yesterday's gone!!! Its gone, sweet jesus, it will never come back!!!! Why ask God to help us move on unless we also consider Sweet jesus to be the constant from those yesterdays and an accomplish to the crimes to end our lives of those murdered moments, which at times we cherished and at times we hated.
Life as we know it never comes back!!! And while that is fine, at times like these when instead of priorities changing, change becomes the priority, what can be done?
What can anyone (no offense, sweet Jesus, its a whole self preservation thing!) do besides trying to walk blindfolded but carefully and being watchful, precisely because we know that we enter into the unforeseen future with blindfolds to begin with, just hoping to not fall or tumble into a pothole , hoping of not to make the same mistakes but to make new ones each time we try to get a sneak peak to get an insight into the future in the game that must be played blindfolded?
For days like those when an optimistic God says like the slogan Cyrus Barrocha used to say in pepsi advertisment 'tera number bhi aayega' and one keeps the hope intact only to find to have collected 756 crowns, to find that 'number nahi aaya' and 'complaint' that yesterday when you said tomorrow will be mine, but then when tomorrow becomes yesterday, yesterday's gone!! how does one keep the faith?
Does one believe in an optimistic God, or walk blindfolded on Razor's edge? Anyways, the hymn is nice, I wish I had it in audio. And I really wish that after so much of studying within a discipline like Philosophy, I could understand the meaning of this hymn or at any rate try to understand what happened in movies like 'Dil toh pagal hai? Never understood that, and trust me, I tried. Never understood it. What happened there?
4 comments:
why would u even want to understand 'dil to pagal hain'. dont waste ur energies on that movie.i'll tell u what i understand about that movie....its trashy. also, i never understood why people started loving karishma kapoor after it....
ya that song was my favourite song during school time. however, i should point it out to you that the focus of that song is the present, and not the past (a thing that you are currently obsessing about). the song basically says that past is GONE, so no use crying, future holds no gaurentee...so might as well enjoy and deal with the present. its quite simple actually...well, in theory anyway
i guess you are right about both the things....the song and the movie.
It is a trashy movie. I just don't get it why did Sharukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit get upset about Madhuri getting married. there was no commitment there, they didn't even talk about anything.
There as nothing between them really, only in their heads over a long period of time.
They didn't tell each other how they felt about each other, but did that only in the climax in front of all these people. How stupid is that!
Yes I guess currently I don't have a present so I keep dwelling on the past and the future a bit too much.
but u do hav a present. u just hav to see it, u had such nice hobbies...madhubani etc.
philosophy is only a part of u . it doesnt define u. so dont restrict urself when it comes to appying urself
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present - Nietzsche.
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