i’m so happy i can’t stop crying.

i watched “the miracle of bern” yesterday and even if i am by no means a big soccer fan – it touched me. it reminded me so much of my grandad. what it meant to him to spend 4 years as a prisoner of war in russia. what it meant to come back to a world forever altered. people forever altered. himself forever altered. compared to 2004 the year 1954 must have been a good time: filled with dreams of rebuilding a future with your hands, just by hard work. and even if those people back then had less, in this case they had more.

I took a walk alone last night
I looked up at the stars
To try and find an answer in my life
I chose a star for me
I chose a star for him
I chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife
Something made me smile
Something seemed to ease the pain
Something about the universe and how it’s all connected

The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream
We try to do the best within the given time
A kid should be with his mother
Everybody knows that
What can a father do but baby-sit sometimes?
I saw that friend of mine, he said,
“You look different somehow”
I said, “Everybody’s got to leave the darkness sometime”
I’m so happy that I can’t stop crying
I’m laughing through my tears
I’m laughing through my tears
I’m so happy that I can’t stop crying
I’m laughing through my tears
I’m laughing through my tears

I believe.