For Good

Alright. I'm going to do a song lyric analysis for this blog. This song is so overdone, but I really like the lyrics and feel like they relate to me and my life.  The song is "For Good" from the musical Wicked. I was first introduced to this song in choir.  Many years later I saw the actual musical.  It is a great musical if you have never seen it. I would highly recommend it!  The lyrics that have always struck me are the ones that follow:

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are lead
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you....

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I've learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

I really like these lyrics a lot, especially after graduation last spring.  A lot of the people that I knew from high school I may never see again.  Even though I may no longer talk to them, I have been changed simply because I knew them.  I am a believer in the idea that everything happens for a reason, so therefore everyone I come in contact with during my life I meet for a reason, and because I got to know them I am forever changed.  I really think that I have met all of my friends for a reason.  From them I have learned how to be a good friend, how to listen, how to be accepting, how to be kind, patient, understanding, and just a good person in general.  Most often I learn because my friends are good examples.  Other times I am able to learn from their mistakes, so that I do not make the same mistake they did.  Even the people that I do not care for I am able to learn from.  I learned how to stand up for people I care about when a mean individual was picking on one of my friends.  I have learned how to pick good friends as well.

Everyone that I have come into contact with throughout my life has had some sort of impact on me, whether they intended to or not.  I am sure I have had an impact on others as well.  It just goes to show that it is important to remember who you are and to be the best person you can be so that the impact you have on others is a positive one.