I’m Fixing To Change My Tune
I’m fixing to change my tune.
In an extraordinary high percentage of occasions, the cause of our misery is brought upon us by our own actions, or our failure to act, and possibly even by our thoughts, and in order to alleviate this condition it is sometimes necessary to change one’s habits or manners from their existing condition to one which is more conducive to good as opposed to bad, or to pleasantness in the place of rudeness.
When I was just a young lad I took up the bad habit of staying up late at night resulting in it being very difficult to rouse up in the mornings and get to school on time. This bad habit led to my being constantly late for school and that negligence on my part led to the fitting punishment of being restricted alone at my desk while my class mates enjoyed the freedom of going their own way at the end of the school day.
There I was, in a miserable condition of my own making.
My momma was always the first one to notice bad habits and recognize rude or improper behavior, and she would call a person down for it, no matter who they were or what they were doing.
In this particular situation she removed the batteries from my flashlight so I couldn’t stay up half the night hiding underneath the covers reading a book. It was by this action on her part that caused me to change my tune, and relieve myself of my present misery.
The preacher had been using the same subject as a theme for his sermon for three weeks running, and at the conclusion of the third one, out in the churchyard, I heard her tell the preacher that if he expected her back for next Sunday’s service, then he better change his tune.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to change your opinion, your thinking, about a certain subject. One summer my brother, Fred, devised an entrepreneurial scheme of purchasing watermelons by the load and selling them individually. I scoffed at the idea and declined to take part in it.
Later on, when I saw how much money he was making, I changed my tune.
When it gets close to Christmas time, bad children change their tunes.
When a woman threatens to break off a relationship, a man will change his tune.
When the Allied Forces stormed Normandy Beach, the Nazi’s changed their tune.
So, I was thinking, as the New Year rapidly approaches, that rather than making all those resolutions which never seem to have any staying power behind them, that I just might be fixing to change my tune.