I was pondering something when I was driving home last night. All the time, I hear people say things like, "This DJ is really lame", or "They play really crappy music in that place", or even someone saying to someone else, "Man, you don't have any good CDs." These kind of statements have always kind of bugged me, not because I don't think people are entitled to their opinion, especially when it comes to music, but because they say those kind of things as if they were a universal fact. A lot of people may not care for the music they play in Bally Total Fitness, for example, but Joe Smith over there just might love it, therefore it does not suck. And hey, I'm sure if they played mix of famous operatic arias, or Pink Martini, or Rascal Flatts, a lot of people would be crying "LAME" but I sure as heck wouldn't be complaining. 

They always say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I truly believe the same thing about the listener. So let this be my encouragement of the day to all of you: Listen to what you love and to what makes you happy, even if others might call it "lame". And now that I've used the word "lame" at least 3 times in this blog, I am now pondering: What's with that word anyway? Doesn't it mean crippled? Hmm...