Stuck in my head (You can blame inlink for this)

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door

You never will get where you're going
If you never get up on your feet
Come on, there's a good tail wind blowing
A fast walking man is hard to beat

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door

If you want to change your direction
If your time of life is at hand
Well don't be the rule be the exception
A good way to start is to stand

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking cross the floor
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the door

If I want to change the reflection
I see in the mirror each morn
You mean that it's just my election
To vote for a chance to be reborn


If you are old enough, you might remember this song from the 1970's Rankin-Bass TV special "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town".  It's my favorite Christmas special, mostly because it has a penguin in it.  Nobody's exactly sure why it has a penguin in it; I suspect either Rankin or Bass had a kid who was into penguins.  I think penguins are cool, so I'm a big fan of "Topper", the lost penguin who pals around with Kris Kringle, and the show.

Now, of course, you're trying to figure out why I'm writing about Santa Claus in May.  I am writing about Santa Claus in May because I was reading a blog post by inlink and the song popped into my head and stayed there all day.  The song is a duet between Kris Kringle and the Winter Warlock, sung after Winter's icy heart melts and he decides to change his evil ways.  (Ah, if only the simple gift of a toy train would melt all the icy hearts.  That's the problem with the world today - too many Burgermeisters, not enough Warlocks.  But I digress...)

The reason the song popped into my head in the first place was inlink's post about taking the first step in a long journey to become who you truly are.  I've found that the first step is the toughest.  Sometimes, it's easier to just be who everyone expects you to be than to change into who you want to be.  You certainly get much less resistance from the people who swear they love you just the way you are.  My parents, who sometimes forget that I am an adult, or at least a close approximation of an adult, want to know why I want to throw away the college education they paid for to teach yoga.  I don't have a good answer for them, except "I just do".  It's what my soul wants. 

This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision.  My practical head has been arguing with my soul for years, and, until this year, my practical head was winning.  I've been a big girl and gone to work and paid the bills while my soul thought it would be great to be a forest ranger and live in the woods.  I made sure my kids lived in a town with good schools while my soul was considering good places to stick a yurt.  Money is a big issue for me, probably because, for many years, I didn't have any.  Now that I make enough to be comfortable, the idea of having less money is very, very scary.  There's also a great big time commitment involved with a major life change.  Am I ready?  I'd better be.  My first day of yoga teacher training is tomorrow.

I still don't know why this is the year everything had to change.  Maybe there's just a good tail wind blowing.  Time to stand up and take that first step.