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I can't be the only person who used to leave her window open as a little girl, hoping maybe Peter Pan would show up and take her on magical adventures.

I didn't have a big fancy picture window like the Darlings had. Mine, in fact, wouldn't have left much room at all for anyone to fit through and they would have to bust through the screen. But, still, from about the age of five until eight I used to sometimes dream I'd be off to Never Never Land with the whole gang. It wasn't so much that I didn't want to grow up, but that it seemed like it would be a very exciting place to be.

I saw this variation on the "Keep Calm" sayings recently and laughed because surely whoever designed it might have some of the same memories, the same need now to find a similar way to escape into something less...ordinary. I used to think finding your happy place had to be finding an actual place (say Hawaii), but now I realize you could picture the most beautiful, exotic place in the world and still not find your spot, if you don't have inner place.

 

 

Then, one of my favorite songs, "Further" by Correatown, came on my iTunes shuffle and I really listened to the words as if I hadn't heard them only a few hundred times before.

 

I think part of the problem is that sometimes we don't want to leave our dark places behind because we're so used to them and the light seems too good to be true or we believe that we don't deserve it.

 

I wish everyone, even the most mean and thoughtless people in the world, true inner peace because if you don't have that, if you can't leave the darkness behind, how can you ever live, except mechanically?

 

 "Further" by Correatown

If I can't let this go

I'm telling you I won't make it another year

If I go all the way

I'm telling you I can see all these things coming clear

'Cause we have so much love

But we need so much more

'Cause we have so much love

But we need so much more

If we go on like this

I'm telling you we won't make it another year

But if we go all the way

I'm telling you we'll finally see all these roads coming clear

'Cause we have so much love

But we need so much more

'Cause we have so much love

But we need so much more

We have a fascination with the darkness

Although we're standing in light

We have the strongest sense of kindness

But still we can't treat our own selves right

We have so much love

But we need so much more

We have so much love

But we need so much more

We go further

We go further

We go further

We go further

'Cause we have so much love

But we need so much more

'Cause we have so much love

But we need so much more

We have a fascination with the darkness

Although we're standing in light

We have the strongest sense of kindness

But still we can't treat our own selves right

We have so much love

But we need so much more

We have so much love

But we need so much more

We go further