all i wanna do

There's a Sheryl Crow song L played for me last summer that's been taking up a not insignificant amount of space in my head for the better part of a year. Crow spends the entire 4 minute run time of All I Wanna Do in a bar with this older man, looking at all the yuppies and thinking about the ways in which life has passed by all the people stuck in the bustle of everyday life, work → money → sleep, grind over and over. More than anything, the song motivates me to try to have a good time despite all the madness of the world. Every time I hear this song, the image ingrained in my mind is the dock at L's grandparents' house, huge fish jumping out of the lake in the sunshine as if trying to hear the music themselves. Maybe all the creatures of the world want to have a little fun too. As the summer approaches again, I'm thinking a lot about this song and how much it embodies this moment of my life - in some ways, every choice I've ever made has been in an endless quest to have fun. I'm…