Editor’s Note: I’ve been assigned by my meditation teacher to consider my "essential self." In his words, that means to try to picture who I was before I experienced the things that created my "social self”, “business self”, “family self” and the many roles we all take on to survive and prosper. In my case, I’ve gotten as far as seeing fairly clearly my six year old self, identifying how I viewed the world around me and what seemed to be characteristics that I can still identify with even after years of amending. That’s what Mayer sings about in this fairly lively tune – who he was in 1983, when he was six.
Favorite lyric: Oh, if only my life was more like 1983 all these things would be more like they were at the start of me If my life was more like 1983 I'd plot a course to the source of the purest little part of me
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