The Luckiest

A few years ago Jason and I were driving in the car together and he began to tell me how he had been going through a lot of his old audio tapes (yes, tapes and not cds, ha). He began to tell me about a song that he heard by Ben Folds Five called "The Luckiest" which made him think of me. He told me how the first part of the song talks about how he rarely gets anything right the first time around and it made Jason think of his dating past and how he ended up marrying me and how that made him feel like "the luckiest." It was a sweet conversation, but I really didn't think about it too much.

Well, a few weeks ago, I got into my car one night after pageant practice and my radio was not as I left it. Instead, there was a cd in it and the speakers were turned up fairly high. I listened for a while and realized that I was listening to the song "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds Five. Here are the lyrics:

I don't get many things right the first time
In fact, I am told that a lot
Now I know all the wrong turns, the stumbles and falls
Brought me here

And where was I before the day
That I first saw your lovely face?
Now I see it everyday
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

What if I'd been born fifty years before you
In a house on a street where you lived?
Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bike
Would I know?

And in a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize
And I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Next door there's an old man who lived to his nineties
And one day passed away in his sleep
And his wife; she stayed for a couple of days
And passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong
That I know

That I am
I am
I am
The luckiest 

Well, I'm not sure if it was my pregnancy hormones or what, but I sat there in my car and cried like a baby. My husband had taken the time to preset the cd so that I would be hearing this song. It was a random act of romance... no anniversary or Valentine's Day. It was simply something small he did, but it made me feel so loved and appreciated. He is a very romantic man and often does grand gestures, but this simple act was something I will never forget. The truth be told: I am the one who is the luckiest.