Like Minds

Like Minds is the only song in the now hundred and fifty strong Fee Comes Fourth collection that I didn’t have any part in the writing of. This one is all Les Oman. He sings the main vocal too.

And the song moves me and gets me thinking.

One of the hardest tasks, for me, of getting older, was the discovery that there is literally nobody out there who thinks what I think about everything. There is no soul brother or sister who perfectly aligns with me.

I discovered, in that sense, that I am completely alone in the universe. And I’m laughing as I write, because that revelation was actually a liberation. My idealist dreams and beliefs died, but life itself started to burn brighter. It turned out that reality was good enough.

And so is “similar”. Like Les, I’m still reaching out for Like Minds. They do exist. People who share that similar outlook and world view. A similar sense of humour and the ridiculous. A similar hope for the world we live in. A similar realisation that in our aloneness, we desperately need to find each other.

Because, in the famous words of John Donne, “No man is an island”.

For me, I suspect, the songwriting and this blog are my attempts to find those like minds. And it doesn’t need to be a lot of people.

Which is quite convenient as it happens. ;-)


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