Shazam!

I was feeling pretty lonely yesterday on the ride home from town.  It was overcast, getting dark earlier than it used to, cold and bleak.  I was thinking about being alone and single, about my life changing dramatically in a couple weeks when I move into my own place.  It should be an exciting time, but it's also a very scary time for me.

I was thinking about this guy I've been talking to that I like, but who doesn't feel the same way about me, and about the hopelessness of finding love again.  And about being far away from the friends I used to have.

Then something happened that made me feel a little better.  The song "Oh Lord" by Foxy Shazam started playing on the radio.  I was touched because one of my oldest childhood friends in New Jersey (whom I only recently got back in touch with via Facebook) manages Foxy Shazam, and hearing the song when I felt so desolate reminded me that the world is very large, that I am connected to it, and that manifestations of friends can reach me even in this isolated town from very far away.  Knowing that, if I hadn't reconnected with this friend on Facebook and hadn't known he was affiliated with this band, I could have listened to that song without ever realizing the connection I had with it made me realize that there may be lots of other little moments like that that I overlook every day.  Maybe things that my old friends, colleagues, and acquaintances have created or had a part in DO reach me in Mt. Pleasant, and I just don't know it.  Maybe we are connected in that way even if we do not see or talk to each other anymore.

Most importantly, it helped me to remember that even though I'm stuck in Mt. Pleasant, I am not alone.  I really needed that yesterday.