"Don't Stop Believing" by Journey
Life, the Universe and Everything Playlist
Previously at Café 42: Music is a very important thing in my life, essential even. Indee, within the last year, I’ve discovered that music has the power to shift my vibrational state, to open wide my imagination gates, to realign my energy, to allow my body to dance and my soul to sing. This is why, when I decided to create Café 42, I wanted to share a playlist of my most significant songs with my community, like a life’s soundtrack.
My dear beloved regulars,
No surprise here that I chose “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey this week to add to my Life, the Universe and Everything playlist to go with our Weekly Special : “Believe, I can” pie.
After the strange way that song arrived in my life as I related it in my Monday post, I started what I now call my Universe playlist in which I include all the songs that arrive strangely in my life, and there are quite a few, or have meaningful lyrics for me.
“Don’t Stop Believing” is a magical song which magic goes way beyond its authors. I remember Steve Perry, Journey’s singer and co-writer of this song, saying that he heard lots of incredible stories about that song which has entered the American Congress Library in April 2022, making it officially a part of american pop culture.
This song had a destiny which, obviously, didn’t cross the mind of the band when they created it. Steve Perry said that all the songs they wrote at that time were written as potential hits but I think this one had more to it, a magic sparkle meant to give hope, to positively influence people and I don’t think that Steve Perry was the Universe’s choice by chance but that’s another story for me to tell.
At the time I was hit by that song, I was reading « Stay Woke » by Justin Michael Williams, a great young meditation and spiritual teacher, in which he teaches his readers, among other things, how to create a meditation routine; I had been stuck for days with a chapter in which I was supposed to choose a mantra and had been struggling with a few that hadn’t convinced me. “Don’t stop believing” appeared to be a very powerful mantra for me and I loved to decompose it as follow : Don’t stop be-living - don’t stop being fully alive. It has now become the hymn of my life.
In my head, “Streetlights, People” would become “Streetlight people”, persons who were supposed to be light bearers for the lost ones, the one in the shadows, the persons in need of light to find their way in life and I knew deep down that I was one of them, that that was one of my special skills, be a beacon in the night for the persons in need of my unique light.
I wish you all to find your way in the dark following the guidance of one of the streetlight people who will appear in your life when you need them most and would very much like to hear about one of them in your comments.
Until then, I’ll see you next week-end for a new song to add to the Life, the Universe and Everything Playlist.
Lots of love,
Geay
Life, the Universe and Everything playlist
