I’ve really been thinking about this “Everybody Has A Story” theory that I posted about a couple days ago and what I can do to extend it.

Ever since I hit the Publish button, my mind has been going crazy. Shoot, I even began to wonder about people driving around me on the James River Freeway on the way to work yesterday.

The same question I asked a friend over the phone last night has been eating at me for the past few days. How did your life and mine intersect?

It made me think. It boggles my mind that just five years ago, my entire social circle was completely different. People have come and gone over the course of my life, but I’m focused on the people who are interacting with me here in the present.

For some reason, traveling a road comes to mind. Take U.S. Highway 30, for example. Its western terminus is in Astoria, Oregon, but its eastern terminus is 3,000 miles away in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It spans an entire continent and passes through cities big (such as Portland, Oregon) and small (such as Kemmerer, Wyoming) on its journey. It also intersects and follows other routes along the way.

Take that same idea of Highway 30 and apply it to your own life. Life is a highway — it has a humble beginning, but it’s bound to end in a place so much different than where you began. The cities and towns are the trials you’ll go through in life, and the roads that the highway intersects with or follows represents the people you will come to know for any given period of time. Some come, some go, but their impressions will always be felt.

Contained in the story that everyone has, is the fact — and yes, I believe it is a fact — that at least one thing in your story will end up being a blessing to whomever hears it. That in itself is the most important reason everyone deserves to tell their story, and have somebody listen to it.

Good Lord, I want to write a book on this subject.

So on another note, and to close out this post, there are two tracks I’d like to share with you. The first is the original version of the Killers’ “Read My Mind.” I think it’s a brilliant track:

[audio:http://www.thebinster.com/flash/flash2/TKRMM.mp3]

And the second one is an audio snippet of a remix of the same song…I hope to get my hands on soon: the Pet Shop Boys (yes, that’s right, the PSB remixed the Killers!) Stars Are Blazing Mix. I love the additional synths and Neil Tennant’s vocal contributions:

[audio:http://www.chrislowe.co.uk/audio/killers_psb_stars.mp3]

Night, everyone!