Darkness Between the Fireflies

  About two years ago I went to Washington DC where for the first time in my life I saw fireflies. It was a pretty freakin cool and exciting thing to me since I can be juvenile in a lot of ways. The kid in me tends to come out sometimes, anyhow it was getting dark the forest where we were at the time and the darker it got the more fireflies you could see. It seemed pretty simple at the time, but later I heard this song by Mason Jennings titled, Darkness Between the Fireflies that my good friend shared with me. So it really got me thinking about it especially since the just recently I had a pretty bad experience with some friends that practically ended our relationship. Its easy to focus on the bad and negative things in life, since lets face it a lot crappy things happen. But there is a lesson that I learned from this song, take it as you will. Through the darkness and bad things we can find and appreciate the good things in life and our circumstances. Some bad things turn out to really be good things. 
  We have to be able to let go darkness in other peoples lives, particularly the ones close to us. It shows character if we can look past bad things that someone may have done and see them for who they really are and the potential they have to become. We need tolerance and understanding and then a lot of the times we see the fireflies in between the darkness. 

 Artist: Mason Jennings
Song: Darkness Between the Fireflies 

Lyrics:

I woke up before you in the total darkness
Early morning
I could hear the wind in the trees
I was looking for the light to bring you out
From the shadows
Redefine you now for only me
And honey i'm sure
That you've been in love before
Plenty of men have held high places in your eyes
And jealousy has got no use for me
The past is beautiful
Like the darkness between the fireflies
I was driving faster through the appalachians
I could see the world go out below me in the sun
You should know by now
That someone's always been there
Long before you
You're never going to be the only one
And honey i'm sure
That you've been in love before
Plenty of men have held high places in your eyes
But jealousy has got no use for me
The past is beautiful
Like the darkness between the fireflies
Beautiful like the darkness between the fireflies

  I wanted to post the lyrics on this one. Mason is one of my favorite artists. Our each individual past truly is beautiful. We can learn from and shouldn't be ashamed of it no matter what we have been through.