Don't try to tell ME the universe "just happened." (I'm Not Gonna Die Fat)

Maybe it's the endorphins/lack of oxygen to the brain (same difference?) talking, but I just had a mystical experience while jogging.

My routine, when I jog outside, is that I jog for at least two songs in a row on my iPod before allowing myself to walk for one song, with the rule that I must jog up the final hill, even if technically I am still on a walk-break.

So today, I was on the walking part, and listening to American Music:

and I got to the bottom of the final hill, so time to run, so I clicked to the next song and what came up randomly was Bar Lights:

which has a cool intro so I stuck with it and started up the hill.

This is a song I do not know well, and so I was surprised when I got to 37 seconds into the song and the chorus turned out to be:

And I
Feel alive
feel alive.

Pleasantly surprised, and kept on jogging as the song kept on saying things like

I don't need to be reminded that change is gonna come...

...but the truth is, I'm just getting started.

I mean, how perfect is that song?

and I feel alive I feel alive I feel alive

I was making it up that hill, the one that has stymied me so long in the past, and I was getting to the top and trying to push farther, farther, farther, and I saw my goal -- about a hundred yards past the crest of the hill is a little set of rocks set up as a monument to something or other.

And as I got there, the song got to the part, it's at 2:22 in that version above, where the singer says:

Me I'm gonna live forever

just repeating that over and over for a while

Me I'm gonna live forever

So I raised my arms in victory, and headed on home, as the singer said:

And for the first time, in a long time, I feel alive!

PS: THE NEXT SONG ON MY IPOD CAME UP AND IT WAS THIS:

So God has a sense of humor.