"High"

"High" was written and performed by the British duo Lighthouse Family and released in 1998. When I hear this song I still tend to think of Seal, if you listen close enough don't you think they sound quite similar?

Anyway I reckon this is a damn good song and I absolutely think Lighthouse family are fabulous and so is their album "Postcards from Heaven". The first time I heard this was back in 98 in South Africa. I was on a sort of youth camp with all of my friends. A very good friend of mine had arrived in Johannesburg from Los Angeles and came along for that weekend away. I was so excited to see her as it had been around 6years we hadn't seen eachother ..as she had immigrated. When I saw her it was like no time had passed at all and nothing had changed except that she had turned into a real life Barbie Doll and I had shed maybe 2 kgs after 6 years. Well when ever I hear this song I can't help but think of her and "the good ol days" at what she calls "camp". Fastforward 5 years down the line and we are reunited and living in the same country again? Yes, she moved to Australia and I moved here 5 years later. Never mind that we are in different countries again, it still goes to show that life is unpredictable and we never know what's around the corner for us. I look back in hindsight at "the good ol days" and have fond memories of them, but I wish I could have spent more time really appreciating what I had back then instead of worrying about everything ( cause everything turned out okay in the end ).I spent most of my days worrying about what was, what is and what would be and I wasted precious moments. I now have complete gratitude for all that I was blessed with in the past because I was one lucky girl( okay I still am ).

Life goes by in the blink of an eye and it's true that we only realise what we have when it's gone, everything is always prettier in retrospect. I want to start enjoying my life as it is now. Don't you? Who really appreciates what they have? You know what they say , a wise man once said " Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift , that's why the call it the present" applause now? No don't be silly I can't take credit for that one..

"High" is very special to me as it really delivers a great message of having enough faith to know that even though life can get tough at times and we may feel like we have mountains to climb, we know " someday it'll all be over". We're even more blessed when we have people around who love and support us through the good and bad. By the way this song does not talk about Drugs hehe

So here is this glorious song and please watch the video .. the lyrics are provided in there already :)