19 years ago! For some of us, this track will conjure up hazy memories of nightclub moshpits and mass pogoing, for a few of our members it’s more likely to be a school disco smash!
It was the title that prompted me to post, as we enter the first week of ‘lockdown reloaded’, everywhere you turn you’re bombarded with opinions, usually fairly passionate, and overwhelmingly divisive.
Pick a side, double down and do your best to besmirch the other team.
But without getting into the fakenews/pseudoscience/conspiracy/sheeple/new world order blah blah blah, I thought we could take a minute.
When Feeder released the song way back in 2001, they ran a competition online asking their fans to submit videos of themselves rocking out to the song in their bedrooms, and this was pre-YouTube!
Whilst the lyrics of the song deal with loneliness, alcoholism and depression, the video brought connection, hope and unbridled joy.
I’m pretty deep into this and I honestly set out to check in and see if anyone was already feeling derailed after one day of lockdown (hence ‘just a day’).
I’m not suggesting blind optimism and false smiles for the next two weeks, but I certainly would encourage us all take hold of those things that are within our control, and give them our best shot.
It’s rare you regret getting up early to catch a sunrise,
there are plenty of missed workouts I still feel a pang of guilt over,
and whilst I may not have mastered sourdough I won’t let that derail the rest of my life.
Monday was just a day,
Tuesday will pass by just the same,
and if you’re still in the same pyjamas on Wednesday you haven’t failed anything.
But,
if you’d like to take hold of lockdown, and seek out the opportunities hidden amongst the closed doors,
there’s a whole community ready to catch you if you slip.
Catch you on t’interweb…