I'd rather shampoo my cat or rotate the tires on my car any day than suffer thru a Broadway musical, but if these lines from a song in the Broadway musical Wicked don't make your yeyes leaky, nothing will:

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return

Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you:

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart

And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend:

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you:
Because I knew you:
I have been changed for good

awwww now i want 2 hear u sing it ! i was in the oklahoma musical as a kid lol one of the best memories i have!! i was the leading chicken lololol still get haunted by the songs!

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OMG why did no one else comment on this?? I love it and believe it to be true...good or bad.

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

And STILL no one comments.

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

My personal philosophy has always been to leave something (or someone) better off then before you were there. This song fits right in there.

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If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame...

OMG!! Wahoo has a sensitive side...who woulda thought!?

Well he must have been drunk when he posted it.

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Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

OH yeah I didnt think of that..prolly right...

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I don't know much... but I know I luv you...
& that may be all I need to know!