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Originally posted by farawayfromhere:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Orgazmo:
...It's all about turning ourselves around.
Litereally or figuratively? That's for you to decide, friend.
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Its about turning ourselves around, and I am going to go out on a limb here and say that personally I feel this should be taken figuratively.
'turn yourself around'
look at life through different eyes
take your person and turn it inside out, be what no one else expects you to be
'turn yourself around'
</font>[/quote]I think that faraway is onto something here, maybe it is all about looking at things from someone elses point of view. Just about everyone has heard the old cliche "never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes" I think that this cutesy, dorky little song involving the vigorous shaking of body parts, is actually trying to show us that even when someone looks really stupid (i.e. wiggling their legs/arms/butt, or by making life desicions which we don't understand) if we don't understand a reason for someone doing something we should step back and look at it from their perspective. Everyone is going to make choices in their life that people will think are stupid, pointless or just flat out crazy. The Hokey Pokey is trying to teach us to try and find the reason behind these decisions before we condemn someone for making them.
On A Side Note: If you would have told me an hour ago that I was going to be thinking philisophically about the Hokey Pokey, I would have laughed my ass off and then probably I would have flipped you off. Oh well life is full of surprises.
[ September 26, 2004, 04:02 PM: Message edited by: cough man ]