For the readers of the First Facebook Song Challenge this will be a throwback piece from its Day 8 post, but it applied here, so here it is:
I didn’t know where this 30 Day Challenge would take me, but already 7 days in and it’s been a pretty personal trek thus far and Day 7 is no different. “With Arms Wide Open” might strike some as an odd choice, but to me it reminds me of my cousin Greg and his funeral.This was a song that Greg very much enjoyed and will be associated to for many of his peers.
In the weeks and days leading up to his untimely passing, he had spent much time at the bedside of his best friend Chris’s brother (Jason) who had been in a motorcycle accident and was subsequently in a coma. Then in the wee hours of a fateful September morning, Greg’s car veered off the road on the way to pick up his girlfriend and was tragically killed. It was shortly after Greg’s passing that Jason awoke and mentioned “With Arms Wide Open”, which led many of us to believe that from this tragic event, something equally special occurred.