"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Singin' in the Car

~He who sings frightens away his ills.
~Miguel de Cervantes

Confession: I sing in the car.

Yes, I love to crank up my radio and sing-off tune, I'm sure. Now, I don't have statistics and I can't really tell you how many people sing in the car-though I think it would be interesting to know. I do know there are 2, 560, 156 people who "like" singing in the car on Facebook :)

But, I have to say, I don't generally sing when I'm stopped at an intersection. People have more time to look around then. I do it. I've caught people singing and laughed to myself-I'm sorry to say.

I bring this up because I was singing on the way home from work yesterday. I'm working on not caring what others think, so I was singing at the stop light. I glanced in my rear view mirror and noticed the guy in the car behind me singing. I watched him for a minute and realized we were singing the same song :)

I realized this just in time for him to stop singing... and glace to both sides. I found myself doing the same thing about fifteen seconds later. Thinking about it, it's really dumb. Who cares if someone sees? It's not like you'll ever see them again. (okay, so I have seen someone I know singing... but just once)

But the biggest thing is, how many people can really say they've never sung in the car? Really?

I'm still self-conscious about it, it's true. I just found it interesting to think about :)
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