Great moments can come from anywhere. This morning I was getting the kiddo ready for school and out of the blue he says: "Alexa play ... thank you for the happiest year of my life." (File this one in the everyday Sox category cause I think I know how I'll use this in that novel! See HERE).
Now I don't know about you, but I'd never heard it before and I didn't expect a twelve-year-old to have such a nuanced view of music, life, love, and the world. Truthfully, I don't know where my kids get their musical talent. The oldest is loving band, concert band, and symphonic band and will probably get a scholarship in his instrument for higher education. Which I think is cool.
Now the younger, who I always thought would be more on the sporty side of things, is digging music too. He still kills it on the soccer field, the basketball court, football field, and in any other sport, but then there are times when he gets out his instrument and hits it out of the park. The other day, in the middle of my class, I took a break and went downstairs and there was the older one teaching the younger one an ersatz class on time and measures while reading music. Unreal!
Regardless, back to the story. Here's this twelve-year-old cat who asks Alexa not to play Imagine Dragons, or anything else of that ilk, but asks for ... thank you for the happiest year of my life.
So I listened.
Bowled over is an understatement. Who knew he was such an old soul! The lyrics are impactful, but one or two lines really got me.
By the way ... if during the song, while that little kiddo is singing those lyrics, and he's soulful, and into the music, eyes closed, really belting out that ballad ... and you start saying "your welcome" to him after each time he says "thank you for the happiest year of my life" ... he won't find it as funny as you do. Just saying.
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