Sometimes, I just wanna dance.

if you want to find yourself by traveling out west, or if you want to find somebody else that's better, go ahead, go ahead.

Last night, I caught myself thinking about all sorts of characteristics that I possess.

I listed them off in my head, and kept thinking to myself after each one, "that's fine."

And then I wondered when "that's fine" would finally translate into "good enough."

if you want to buy a brand new fancy automobile, or if you want to build a place up in coldwater canyon, go ahead, go ahead.

Now, I'm not really one to walk about meditating on whatever degree of self-loathing comes about with my choice of profession, or my habits, or what have you.

More often than not I find happiness in the simple things that I do.

It's just that sometimes it catches up with you – the discrepancy between how well you view yourself and the way that others treat you.

go ahead, i wish you would, go ahead.

I'm not treated poorly; as of late I can say that the people most important to me treat me better than many other people and eras in my life already past.

I suppose it's more in the details.

Somebody will tell me, with a smile, that they missed me, while somebody else has never said that to me at all. Little things.

if you want to hold your own hand going up that cliff, or if you want to just hold back cause you ain't up to it, go ahead, go ahead.

Really, they're the sort of things that don't matter much individually, and you tick them off a list one by one saying 'Oh, what nonsense, that I ever cared about that at all!'

But when you get to the end of the list, it's not about the individual things anymore, it's about how long the list is.

Perhaps the list should be thrown into a bonfire.

go ahead, be my guest, go ahead.

So, what do you do then, to make that step from "that's fine", to "good enough"?

What if you thought you were already at "good enough" and suddenly find yourself back at "that's fine"?

When do you get to frickin' pass go and collect $200?

if you want to hold on to the first girl that you meet, or if you want to settle down and plant roses at my feet, go ahead, go ahead.

Maybe it's this.

Over time, people in your life clearly change, and uncontrollably your opinion of them reflects upon your opinion of yourself.

So the trick is, if you've regressed to "that's fine", to figure out in whose opinion that's true.

go ahead, i wish you would, go ahead.

Then, I suppose, you can throw them into a bonfire as well.

Figuratively speaking, of course.

I was never really a fan of witch-hunts outside of literary fiction.

if you want to have your cake and eat it too, and if you want to have other people watch you while you eat it, go ahead, go ahead.

With any luck at all, post-figurative bonfire session (and don't we all love a good bonfire?) you'll be left with your gems.

The people who, no matter what confusions or arguments or misunderstandings, will triumph in the end by continually making you smile.

The people for whom you will be, and have always been, good enough.

go ahead, be my guest, go ahead.

And the people that end up in the bonfire, alongside that list of details, here's to them.

Here's to hoping that they find somebody that will live up to their standards.

Somebody who will wait without a doubt for them to come around, forever.

if you want better things, i want you to have them. if you want better things, then i want you to have them. go ahead, go ahead.

Because I will choose best for myself, and I will work hard at the relationships that bring joy to my life.

I will love, without a doubt, the people who do the same for me.

And I will cherish them, instead of all the buttheads.


go ahead, i wish you would, go ahead.
go ahead, i wish you would, go ahead.



Song: Go Ahead, by Rilo Kiley


Hasta luego!
Alex