RUN

These days, I am in an absolute dilemma, caught in a web of confusion and non-sense. I just really don't know what to do with my life. So gone are the days that I know exactly what I want, now, it's just some random hullabaloo. Well, my dear mentor Madonna has always (or has she?) sung (well, at least these days) about taking the moment and living life to it's fullest in its best time...NOW.

She sings:

Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
I'm caught up
I don't know what to do

Every little thing that you say or do
I'm hung up
I'm hung up on you
Waiting for your call
Baby night and day
I'm fed up
I'm tired of waiting on you

Ring ring ring goes the telephone
The lights are on but there's no-one home
Tick tick tock it's a quarter to two
And I'm done
I'm hanging up on you

I can't keep on waiting for you
I know that you're still hesitating
Don't cry for me
'cause I'll find my way
you'll wake up one day
but it'll be too late

- from 'Hung Up'

And:

If you want it
You already got it
If you thought it
It better be what you want
If you feel it
It must be real just
Say the word and imma give you what you want

Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
Grab a boy
Grab a girl
Time is waiting
We only got 4 minutes to save the world
No hesitating
We only got 4 minutes, 4 minutes

- from '4 Minutes'

Also:

What are you waiting for?
Nobody's gonna show you how
Why work for someone else
To do what you can do right now?

Got no boundaries and no limits
If there's excitement, put me in it
If it's against the law, arrest me
If you can handle it, undress me

Give it to me, yeah
No one's gonna show me how
Give it to me, yeah
No one's gonna stop me now

They say that a good thing never lasts
And then it has to fall
Those are the the people that did not
Amount to much at all

Give me the baseline and I'll shake it
Give me a record and I'll break it
There's no beginning and no ending
Give me a chance to go and I'll take it

You're only here to win
Get what they say
You're only here to win
Get what they do
They'd do it too
If they were you
You done it all before
It ain't nothing new

- from 'Give It To Me'

Finally:

You don't have the luxury of time
You have got to say what's on your mind
Your head lost in the stars you never go far
It's time for you to read the signs

On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes
On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes
On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes
On and on, on the beat goes on and on, on the beat goes

My hand, take it, you can,
The time, is now, i'll show, you how

Say what you like, do what you feel, you're not exactly who you are
The time is right now, you got to decide, stand in the back or be the star

- from 'The Beat Goes On'

I guess Madonna has taken notes from Saint Benedict as her songs reflect Benedict's message of the NOW. Taking you back to the first Madonna sample I gave a while ago, a single titled 'Hung Up:'

Time goes by so slowly for those who wait
No time to hesitate
Those who run seem to have all the fun
I'm caught up
I don't know what to do

is quite similar with Saint Benedict's famous line:

...we must run and do now what will profit us forever.

So I have decided to RUN, metaphorically, that is. I encourage everyone to do so, too. We've got only 4 minutes to save the world, you know.