Do you ever feel like the hero in this photograph? Like you once did some pretty cool things, maybe even great things, but you can’t do them anymore? And to top it off there’s a pigeon(s) doing his business on your head?

Me too.

The other day I heard “The Hero in Me” while I was driving. It was so moving I had to pull over and write down the name of the song. Something about the lyrics, the melody resonated deeply inside of me. I thought it might speak to you too.

Parts of it, like for me, living with MS, are sad:

You know how
They’ve been suppressing their every desire
they do nothing on a whim
she’s lost her sparkle and he’s lost the fire
their future looks very dim

The Chorus is the part I found so relevant for all of us who’ve had to change our dreams, our expectations and our plans when we realized we weren’t where we thought we’d be at a specific time in our life:

And I sleep and I dream of the person I might have been
then I’ll be free again
And I speak like someone who’s been to the highest peaks
and back again
And I swear that my grass is greener than anyone’s
’til I believe again
Then I wake and the dream fades away and I face the day
and I realize that there’s got to be some hero in me
There’s got to be some hero in me
There’s got to be some hero in me.

You know what? There’s a hero in me. There’s a hero in you.

If you’ve lost her, I will help you bring her back. As a Personal Life Coach it’s what I do.