Chapter 99: A New Day Has Come

So, this blog is coming a little late due to the fact that I decided to get a little experimental with it and try my hand at doing a video blog instead of a written blog. I thought it would be a really fun idea and would be easier than sitting down and typing out a full-length blog. Unfortunately, I wasn't entirely aware of the rules of YouTube and wound up making a 14 minute long video that, upon uploading, was cut down to 10 minutes. So, there are 4 minutes of this video missing, which really sucks because those parts were kind of the main focus of the whole thing.

In the missing part of the blog, I continued to discuss Celine Dion and, in particular, her song "A New Day Has Come." This is my very favorite song of hers, ("Taking Chances" would be a close second,) and a song that has always spoken to me and touched me in a very profound way. You see, as I began to discuss in the video, Celine was on Oprah yesterday and it seemed like in many ways the focus of this interview, while being there to promote her documentary "Celine: Through The Eyes of The World," was her discussing her son, Rene Charles. It was a fairly well-known fact that Celine tried multiple times to have a child and was pretty much told it would be impossible for her. It was really, in many ways, a bit of a miracle that she wound up having him. That is what the song "A New Day Has Come" is about, according to Celine. For me, though, it is really a song about any person that comes into your life and gives you a whole new perspective and outlook on life. To me, it is one of the most powerful statements a person can make to say that somebody has managed to change your mind and your views about life. It makes sense that having a child would do that, but I don't think it is exclusive to having a child. This could be a feeling you get from a boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife or even a friend or family member. I don't have a person like that in my life at this point. It isn't necessarily something that I really aspire to at this point in my life, either, but I do think that it is something I will come to want in the future. I am too selfish right now and too happy with where I am at as a person. I don't doubt that this will change eventually, though. Hearing Celine talk about her son was extremely inspiring to me and really put these thoughts into my head of "I want something like that, too." I want that type of profound change. Like I said, I don't think that it is meant for me right now, but it is definitely something I want eventually. Of course, when saying this I don't mean that I want a child. I just want something that will make that type of change in my life - whether it be a person or a project or whatever other form it could take. Definitely not a child, though.

The reason the blog is coming the next morning, btw, is due to YouTube upload times. I fell asleep waiting for the upload to finish and have sadly found myself awake at 8am this morning. This is a terrible side-effect of the work schedule I have kept this past week. I don't like it one bit! Oh well, I always complain about waking up too late on the weekends, so I probably shouldn't complain about waking up too early. Plans for today include going to Chase to open up a bank account and going down to Fort Meyers for my brother's girlfriend's housewarming party. I don't know why, but I have been very excited about this all week. I think it's just going to be a really good thing to get out of town, as well as to see my brother and his girlfriend, who I don't get to see very often. I'm going to take the camera and see what type of photos or video footage I can get with it for possible use in the short film/long-form music video. We'll see. Either way, I am anticipating a good day.