All We Need is Wooooah!

Wooooah!

I need a few more of these in my life.  Those moments where I could just shout it.

Wooooah!

I'd love to burst out with it in the middle of a business meeting someday.  I think it would be a great way to let everyone know my enthusiasm for the topic at hand. Get some attention, for sure.  Wouldn't that be cool?  Random explosions of joy, of exuberance.

Wooooah!

What holds me back?  Decorum, I suppose.  Not wanting to perturb co-workers or random folks passing by.  Although that wouldn't be so bad, would it?

Wooooah!

I used to shout it out.  That was back in the days of being a young Gumbo, at concerts and dances where it was noisy and I could get lost in the crowd.  The problem for me was self-consciousness and a lack of good musical voice.  Not that being able to sing is necessary, but it is better if you can at least get it in key.  I can't sing, and for me to hit a key is more chance than skill.

Wooooah!

These days I don't get my woah on very often. It has to be the right moment, almost always music inspired.  And I don't do it in public.  Mostly in the car, or in the odd moment at home when I can occasionally be moved to caper about like a fool to something on the radio or my music collection.  I kid myself that I can do it well.

Wooooah!

Sometimes I do get it right.  And when I do, I smile and play my air guitar or put my fist in the air, recalling the energy I once had and the time I cherished where a good woah fit right in. These days, I hear one on the radio and I know that exuberance can be had, if I know where to look.  I used to think that growing up meant I'd have to leave it behind.  For too long, I did leave it behind.

Now I know better. It's still there, peeking out from the shadows of my jaded heart.  It won't manifest every day; that's no longer possible.  But it doesn't have to be every day.  All I need to know is I have it, and all it needs are the right moments.  I'm happy to say that, even in the midst of nearly four months of being jobless, I'm having quite a few Wooooah! moments.

That is a very good thing indeed. Wooooah!

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Two of the best wooooah! moments I have heard recently is in a new favorite song of mine, "I Don't Owe You A Thang" by blues guitar virtuoso Gary Clark, Jr.  If you want a great pick-me-up, you can listen to the song/watch the video HERE. Great stuff.  I wish I could do it the way he does it!