Everything Will Be Alright

All of the titles for this blog will be song titles and I encourage you to listen to the songs I post as you read this.

I am currently listening to Everything Will Be Alright by The Killers.

I have been a fan of The Killers for a long time, but just recently heard this song for the first time. It really made me think about a lot of things; relationships, life, even faith. And I found myself asking the question: What do I believe in? I've always liked the idea that everything happens for a reason, but I'm not sure if I truly believe that. What is faith anyways? When you break it down, it almost seems kind of ridiculous; believing in things or ideas or concepts that you can't always prove. But then again that might just be the best part about the whole thing. Because no one can take away what you believe in. And it can be whatever you want it to be. Sure, people can tell you that what you believe in is stupid or wrong but faith isn't something that other people can physically take away from you, and that is the true beauty of it.

I think faith is what keeps us all going even if it happens indirectly. Even if you're not a religious person, we all have things that we believe in. In a world full of doubters and haters and skeptics, sometimes you just have to believe that everything will be alright. And that is what is so great about this song. Its not trying to preach to you or make you believe in something. Its just saying that everything will be alright... it will. And I definitely believe that. No matter how much I complain about things sometimes and no matter how bad things may seem... everything will be alright.

Its like when you were little and you had a bad dream or you fell down and hurt yourself and your mom or dad would try to comfort you by telling you that everything would be alright. You didn't question them, you just believed them. And of course, they were right. And that's the mentality that gets lost in translation as we get older. Because you can question things all day and have every reason to doubt something, but its that trust in something greater that allows us to continue to move on. And in the end that's all faith really is; a blind "trust" in things that aren't tangible or that you can't immediately prove.

So I leave you with these questions... What do you believe in? What keeps you going even when all signs point to failure or "impossible"? What keeps you going when people doubt or question your reasons for doing something? I guess no matter what the answers are to these questions we just have to believe that in the end, no matter what, everything will be alright.