Reflection by Xán Miñán, Chaplain’s Office Woodbridge Fellow

Date of Publication: 
March 7, 2022

I usually jump at the opportunity, such as when penning a Consider This reflection, to pop off about the current object of my ruminations; any chance is a good one to spout my signature loosely-connected, probably-hard-to-follow, what-exactly-are-you-saying-here-Xán type thoughts; a tendency (nay, a skill) I consider to be the crown jewel of What I Learned At Yale™. (Just take a look back at that sentence.) This is what's expected of me, after all.

Today however, as uplifted and prolix and even effusive as I might feel with the ever-improving spring weather (which I simply refuse to shut up about; S.A.D. is real y'all!), I'd rather just... not. 

Instead, I leave you with another's words to consider, necessarily in the form of song lyrics. Curated still according to recent thoughtloops, but better said than I could muster today.

 

"Nobody can tell ya

There's only one song worth singing

They may try and sell ya

'Cause it hangs them up

To see someone like you

 

But you gotta make your own kind of music

Sing your own special song

Make your own kind of music

Even if nobody else sings along"

—from "Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Mama Cass Elliot