For me to choose

Driving home from post-ultimate drinks and a bite to eat with C and her man, I flipped about on the local radio stations to find something to carry me home. As the first notes of REM's "Everybody Hurts" started to play on one, I hopped over to the button next door and recognized U2's "Beautiful Day."

Having felt that a bit of an unshakable grey cloud has been following me around the past few weeks, I had a choice to make.

Choose the song that would wrap around me like a cozy blanket and indulge my melancholy, or choose the one that would let me climb on top of it, giving me a platform to dance, sing or do whatever I felt like.

I decided it was a beautiful day
and so is today.