Joni and I have been listening to my eclectic mix of music on the road this week. The lyrics from a song released 17 years ago sounds like it was written this week. The artist was John Mayer and he won a Grammy for Best Male Vocal Pop Performance with his song “Waiting on the World to Change”.  The song describes the apathy displayed by many of Mayer’s generation toward political and social disunity. The words are powerful and, to me, a bit depressing. Me and all my friends We’re all misunderstood They say we stand for nothing and There’s no way we ever could  Now we see everything that’s going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don’t have the means To rise above and beat it  So we keep waiting Waiting on the world to change  That accurately describes our culture today. We are discouraged and even paralyzed by things out of our control. We feel like the world
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