![]() ![]() I didn’t want anyone to see my blubbering so I quietly snuck out of the facility, and into the cool evening air. I was so close to keeping it together! Only twelve more hours before I would be driving home. Fucking dog commercial! No way could I come sit down and watch the rest of the game. I stood in the doorway of the activities room, tears streaming down my face. Like I mentioned earlier, I can be Superman when necessary but my kryptonite is dog videos. He’s clearly nearing the end of his physical life. The clip then becomes a montage of the girl getting older, graduating high school, going off to college, getting married, and having a baby of her own.Īs we see her reaching these iconic life milestones, we also see the dog aging, getting older and slower, his muzzle grayer. She whispers “I'll always take care of you” into its floppy brown ear. The ad begins with a young girl being given a chocolate lab puppy for her birthday. When I returned to the main room sometime in the 3rd quarter of the game, a commercial began to play on the TV. I was antsy and constantly getting up to check my phone for any new email or texts. I’d been keeping my emotions in check, focused only on the long list of what needed to get done to keep my aunt from ending up in the hospital again, or worse, a nursing home.Īfter halftime, the activities room was only half-full. I hadn’t slept in a bed in almost a week. I felt like I’d done just about everything I could to set my aunt up for care and recovery when I left for home.īut I was fried. The room was filled with residents ready to watch the big game.īy this point, I’d been at Hillcrest for six days. They served nachos and mini hotdogs in buns and two-buck-chuck chardonnay and cabernet. The main activities room was decorated with cardboard footballs, flags for both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, and streamers hanging from the ceiling. The day before I left my aunt’s assisted living facility was Super Bowl Sunday. (Most of their names were usually made up by the staff as it was the rare pup that arrived at the facility with a known medical history and name.) It included a description of the dog of course, as we didn’t know all the pups by name. ![]() In the main office, there was a giant dry erase board with each dog listed along with its specific walking, feeding and temperament needs. Being surrounded by dozens of older dogs - half of which were deaf, the other half mostly blind - made my heart both ache and crack wide open. It’s impressively comprehensive.Ī few years ago, I volunteered at a senior dog rescue ( ). I have the app “Does the Dog Die?” on my phone. I refuse to watch movies that show a dog dying. There’s hardly anything that can turn me into a sobbing mush-ball quicker than a story of a dog nearing the end of its life. Our time with our canine kids seems to pass in the blink of an eye. I don’t have kids, but I’ve been a parent of dogs for the past 18-plus years, and I know the heartache of watching them go from extra-exuberant puppy to senior dog with graying muzzle that eventually requires assistance to climb up on the couch or the bed. He’s no dummy.Īs a child-free adult, I haven’t had the exact experiences that Dylan and Stewart sing about in their takes on “Forever Young.” Dylan gave the song his blessing - and a demand for 50 percent of the royalties. Stewart did run it by Dylan before releasing it - though Rod claimed not to have consciously borrowed from his musical idol. May the good Lord be with ya down every road you roamĪnd may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from homeĪnd may you grow to be proud, dignified, and trueĪnd do unto others as you would have done to you Stewart’s lyrics more or less follow the same structure and content as Dylan’s: I’m not going to go deep into whether or not Rod Stewart intentionally or unintentionally borrowed from Bob Dylan’s original “Forever Young.” The larger context at the time was the cold war, but the lyrics are universal enough to be resonant without needing to know the origin story. It’s baked in.įor the Rod Stewart and Bob Dylan versions, the lyrics are aimed specifically at their children for Alphaville (a German band) the song is about sticking to one’s youthful ideals and not becoming jaded and complacent as you age. The subject matter in these songs is inherently nostalgic. I don’t think it’s the sort of nostalgia that comes naturally through the passing of time. These three iconic “Forever Young” versions are sonically quite different, though each exudes a deep feeling of nostalgia. ![]()
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