In the Heart of Every Girl

I've been listening to the soundtrack from Mona Lisa Smile recently. Specifically one song from the CD. It's really interesting to listen to music that is not from my era at all. In terms of music, I'm convinced I was born five decades too late. I love the music from the war time era. I love the commitment, that ability to wait for someone, to overcome the odds. I love the way that the strength of those who fought the war translates into the music they make. It does so much more than a simple expression of emotion. It makes you feel what the singer was feeling. This may also simply speak to the calibre of musicians that used to exist and the poor quality of pop musicians now.

The point of my writing is not entirely write about how much I love the music of this era, but the specific lyrics. The first line of the song that I had on repeat for a long time this morning was this. "In the heart of every girl, there's a woman waking up." When it comes to understanding women, that's on of the things that you have to know. Life is a constant process of becoming and that's where women always seem to be. I think the best guideline for growing up is truly to become a mother. Every woman thinks that they are becoming their mother, but they only fully realize it when they have their own children.

Another line from this song talks about the dreams that every girl holds in her heart. True to the times, the dreams focus simply around creating a home and raising a family, but there are other dreams that also must be honored by those who seek to love someone. To dream is something precious and something that we are robbed of too early in our lives. We are told that dreaming is waste of time and limits are set on what we can do. When you ask what dreams someone holds in their heart and what they really want to do, you allow that person to open up a world of possibilities they didn't have access to before that.

Another song from the musical Camelot is titled How to Handle A Woman. I will be the first to admit that when I read the title of the song I laughed. I thought there would be no way in the world to put that in a song unless it was sarcastic and not really any good advice at all. I was surprised when I listened to the lyrics. They were amazingly accurate for a Broadway musical. They said that the way to handle a woman was to simply love her. I don't think instructions for making a relationship work come any simpler than that.

In the heart of every girl . . . That's a very difficult phrase to complete. I've learned in the past months that woman appear to be much more complicated than we really are. I don't know if we like coming off that way, but we really can be a lot simpler than we seem. In the heart of every girl is exactly the same as in the heart of every guy. There is a desire for acceptance, respect and love. We need the same things as men do. We just like getting our own way a lot more, I think. At least some days. That explanation saved King Arthur's life, so I'm sure it still holds true!