imagine... or maybe not

Sad music plays most of the time in Thailand or at least in the places that I eat.  Sometimes the words are in Thai and you can only imagine that they are singing about unrequited love or some type of loneliness.

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today... Aha-ah...

I eat by myself, most of the time.  So I say…self what would you like to eat?  Do you want to people watch?   Do you want to watch soccer or rugby?  My usual answer is not sure what I want to eat.. not sure I want to people watch etc.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... You...

I go and look at the menu and try to order something simple.  Turn on my Kindle.. and then listen to the music while I wait for the food.

Each year, this is a some that they play at least once while I am here.  I think of someone who was part of my life, and that I lost leaving a hole.   I think of so many times when the song has been in my head.   I now listen as a Buddhist.

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Funny how we just let the words and tune roll over us…   A simple tune and simple words.  The words are Dharma.

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world... You...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

There have been many days when I thought, can’t get any worse than this… but it did or didn’t.  I’ll have another beer… it is all good.