I have lived so many lives

There is a Nelly Furtado song called “Try” that has been on my iPod for the last year. I first remember really listening to the words a year ago when I was driving through my favorite stretch of DRC.

One of the opening lines says, “I have lived so many lives, though I’m not old.”

There are those certain songs in life that grab you and take hold, this is one of those for me.

This line reminds me of all the lives I’ve lived over my relatively short life. One in Finland, one in Oregon, one in Ghana, one in Washington, the list goes on. Each time starting with who I am, but certainly changing greatly within each context.