The Winds of Change

"Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream awayIn the wind of change."

There are some songs that can elevate you from any mood, situation or emotion! And so simply yet lucidly proclaim the feelings which you have been yearning to coherently organize and express. That’s the amazing power of music to strike a chord with the soul! It’s inspired me to write my a few lines from my heart.

My first association with the song was by sheer accident. It was one of the classics by the Scorpions that were within my ‘borrowed’ collection of songs. The very first time I heard it, I could connect with it instantly.

Strangely enough, earlier I was so apprehensive about change, its repercussions and effects. Status quo was and is always the comfort zone to which I love clinging. And paradoxically it is change and mobility which has been the source of existence in my life or for that matter anyone’s life.

New experiences, lessons of life, shedding of the rigidities, breaking free from inhibitions, developing new bonds, accepting life for what it is, giving way to what is new-these are some of the phrases linked with the meaning of change to me . The excitement, thrill and sheer experience of the magical moments would make me want to experience and absorb more and more. I would truly love to keep “blowing with the Wind of Change”. Because it is only change which is constant and keeps one moving.

"Walking down the street
Distant memories
Are buried in the past, forever.."

It’s true that somewhere the child in me still dreams away. After every disappointment, loss and struggle there is a sense of hope that prevails-as per cyclical law of nature happiness will dawn. I almost sound cynical but as the saying goes that the deepest of emotions and soul searching is colored by a spark of grief of the past and bygone years.

"The Wind of Change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell.."

And it’s so true that time has been the best healer for every difficult experience and bitter memory–“The Wind of Change blows straight into the face of time” And once I release and let go the memories that imprisoned me, I felt liberated and free.

It was much later that I read about the background of the song and learned that it was about breaking the communist system down and about the positive turning of communist countries in Europe to democracy. Although there was nothing political about my thoughts. Neither does it reflect my allegiances. But somewhere I can always connect with the values of freedom, liberty and the new order (the old giving way to the new).

It’s so strange that some songs tie the personal to the collective and cross every barrier of time and space. The sheer expression of opposite feelings of hope and despair at the same time makes it a soul stirring composition that elevates me from every possible emotion which binds me. I feel larger than every experience and a step closer to the divine.