Jon Recommends: "Be Thankful For What You Got" by William DeVaughn
Life is challenging.
You get a bit over a century (at best) to kick around in the sand before you are buried under it. And the story always ends the same.
Tragedy at its finest.
Yet while the whole “ World going to shit” paradigm is a spicy aesthetic for your dashboard, as a way of life it is… well… fucking awful.
While seven minutes of effortless sounds and a tasty vibraphone solo isn’t going to change your worldview or alter your gut flora, the feeling it offers may have you glimpsing a different way of looking at things.
Listening to this song is the smoothest of reminders. No matter where you’re at, you’ve got something. If all you’ve got today is ten toes and a heartbeat, well I guarantee there’s someone out there with 9 toes who just had a heart attack.
Just be thankful for what you got. Not because “This too shall pass” or some other meaningful-but-now-clichéd hashtag, but because the alternative is quite literally hell.
Baby steps, baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTXljIqxRE(Song recommendation by Jon Johnson)Originally published on October 24, 2017