Watching #The Greatest Showman and, like many others, each song has lines of lyrics that speak to me.
Everything from #The Greatest Show where one moment I'm one of the renegades in the ring, the next I'm anticipating the buried ache in my bones that will finally be exposed and, with it , the impossible will come true!
#Rewrite the Stars where love can change my fate, #Tightrope where I hope that who I'm trusting will catch me when I fall, #The Other Side when I'm in two minds about taking a new, crazy, opportunity (!) that could re-direct my life, and, of course, #This Is Me, the anthem of stepping into the light with confidence and pride for everything that I am.
But, #From Now On, the chant of turning around bad habits, appreciating those you love, and marching forward with the best intentions is the one with a lyric that caught me off guard, this one: "...and we will come back home." I had to examine the question, 'what is home?'. Do they mean the circus? Or each other's company? Or the sense of being part of something more than themselves?
Having lived in 6 countries over the course of my life so far, and with immediate family scattered across 4 of them, what is home? Is it the place I spent the longest period of my life? Is it the place I have the fondest memories? Is it the place I was born? The place I live now? Is it the people who give me the comfort of home? Or is it broader still, like coming home to your senses?
Home is a term that is taken for granted, used loosely, but what does it mean? The lyric gave me pause because, hearing it in the context of the song, expanded its meaning. Home becomes something of your choosing, a place (physical or ethereal) that will always welcome you back no matter where you've been, what you've been through, or how long you've been gone.
So, without further ado, welcome home.
