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The Monday Morning Memo

Time, why you punish me?
Like a wave crashing into the shore
You wash away my dreams.
Time, why you walk away?
Like a friend with somewhere to go
You left me crying.
 
Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time.

Time I don’t understand
Children killing in the street,
Dying for the color of a rag.
Time, they’re red and blue.
Wash them in the ocean, make them clean.
Maybe their mothers won’t cry tonight.

Can you teach me about tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
But tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in
Time is wasting, time is walking,
You ain’t no friend of mine.
I don’t know where I’m goin’,
I think I’m out of my mind
Thinking about time.
 
And if I die tomorrow
Just lay me down in sleep.
Time is wasting, time is walking,
You ain’t no friend of mine.
I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind
Thinking about time
 
Time you left me standing there
Like a tree growing all alone
The wind just stripped me bare
Stripped me bare
Time the past has come and gone.
The future’s far away
And “now” only lasts for one second, one second
 
Can you teach me ’bout tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow, running free?
‘Cause tomorrow’s just another day
And I don’t believe in time
You ain’t no friend of mine
I don’t know where I’m goin’
I think I’m out of my mind.
Walking, wasting
You ain’t no friend of mine
And I don’t know where I’m goin’
No don’t know
Time without courage
And time without fear
Is just wasted, wasted
Wasted time.
Time, why you punish me?
 
Songwriters: Darius Rucker / Dean Felber / Jim Sonefeld / Mark Bryan
Time lyrics © Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TuneCore Inc.

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When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went ‘WOW. That’s amazing!’ And I said, ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.’

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.

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