Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold

Mmm, Eighties Country. Dan Seals' The Best is probably my favorite album, and Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold was the song I bought it for.

~~A~~

Last fall my Mom got a new job. It was outstanding at first - she was so excited about the opportunities this would provide her to help people and the great way the organization treated its employees. But over the past eight months things have gone downhill. Her job description was changed, and the scope of what she was permitted to do was so narrow that she wasn't able to be very useful and she wasn't using her skills. In addition, her superiors did not get along with her and that has caused a very tense situation. It has come to the point where she has had little choice but to resign. This job looked so great at the beginning, but it has turned out so different. Everything that glitters is not gold.

~~B~~

The song is about a man who's thinking about his ex-wife, who left him and his daughter to go pursue her own dreams.

♫ Little Casey, she's still growing,
And she's started asking questions
And there's certain things a man just doesn't know. ♫

To some degree I imagine that's the pain of every single parent, especially mothers raising a son or fathers raising a daughter - your child is growing and needs a parent of the same sex, and you don't know what to say. You don't know how to be a woman/man, so you don't know how to help them become one. You might try to find a replacement parent, but sometimes that just turns out worse. You love them so much and you see their pain and you can't make it better. It's gotta suck. Not to say they can't do a good job, but it must be so hard.

...How do I know this won't happen to me?

~~~~~

I guess Dan Seals died of cancer a few days ago. I discovered this on YouTube and confirmed it on Wikipedia. Weird. Celebrities seem immortal, especially if they've been out of the public eye for a while. But... I think he'll be remembered and live forever through his music. (Yuck, that sounds so cliche!)