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What music from WDW makes you feel inspired?
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RunOrlando
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I've been using Pandora. It's taken some time to get it to only play Disney music.
Goofyernmost
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty sure I told this story before, so at the risk of making people nod off, this is a small portion of my life.
First of all, when I first saw CoP the song was "best time of your life". It was, my family was young. We were on our first real vacation and road trip, the weather was great and we were all having the best time of our life.
Flash forward almost 20 years... actually the year was 2000. I had been forced to close my business, (I know everyone says this, but this was no fault of my own), My kids, this I was happy about, were both married and starting their own, to this point, stable happy lives. It left I big hole in my heart though, but parents have to let go. My wife, after dealing with a number of mental health episodes decided that she no longer want to be married and divorced me. I took a job that I hated more then anything I had ever done in my life, but, needed the income desperately. ( had also had to file bankruptcy) I had to sell my home and split the equity with my X. Everything I had worked for was gone and I was living alone in a mobile home. A nice one, but still, with no idea of the future and where I was going to end up.
My youngest daughter asked me to go to WDW with them and her step kids. I didn't have the money so I went to the mall and got a part time job doing sales and engraving in a kiosk for ThingsRemembered for about 6 months to get enough money to pay my way. When we arrived CoP had just reopened with the song, Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. I don't know why, maybe it was because I was at the absolute low point in my life, but the words connected with me, it seemed to give me hope.
Upon returning I did some serious soul searching and decided to go a completely different direction career wise (I was 53 at the time). Got training, took a job that I really enjoyed and within three years I was promoted to management and managed to change a savings account that was almost all front facing 0's and save enough to be able to retire at 63. I am comfortable, live in the same area as my girls and my grandkids, play golf and travel and am probably at my high point right now.
I don't know how much actual influence GBBT had, but I still associate it with the day that I started to do something with my life and no longer let the tail wag the dog.
First of all, when I first saw CoP the song was "best time of your life". It was, my family was young. We were on our first real vacation and road trip, the weather was great and we were all having the best time of our life.
Flash forward almost 20 years... actually the year was 2000. I had been forced to close my business, (I know everyone says this, but this was no fault of my own), My kids, this I was happy about, were both married and starting their own, to this point, stable happy lives. It left I big hole in my heart though, but parents have to let go. My wife, after dealing with a number of mental health episodes decided that she no longer want to be married and divorced me. I took a job that I hated more then anything I had ever done in my life, but, needed the income desperately. ( had also had to file bankruptcy) I had to sell my home and split the equity with my X. Everything I had worked for was gone and I was living alone in a mobile home. A nice one, but still, with no idea of the future and where I was going to end up.
My youngest daughter asked me to go to WDW with them and her step kids. I didn't have the money so I went to the mall and got a part time job doing sales and engraving in a kiosk for ThingsRemembered for about 6 months to get enough money to pay my way. When we arrived CoP had just reopened with the song, Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. I don't know why, maybe it was because I was at the absolute low point in my life, but the words connected with me, it seemed to give me hope.
Upon returning I did some serious soul searching and decided to go a completely different direction career wise (I was 53 at the time). Got training, took a job that I really enjoyed and within three years I was promoted to management and managed to change a savings account that was almost all front facing 0's and save enough to be able to retire at 63. I am comfortable, live in the same area as my girls and my grandkids, play golf and travel and am probably at my high point right now.
I don't know how much actual influence GBBT had, but I still associate it with the day that I started to do something with my life and no longer let the tail wag the dog.
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Goofnut1980
Well-Known Member
Park Entrance Loops - help me focus at work!
I am so ready for FOF to be released on CD! And I haven't even seen it in person yet! HAHA!!!