Little Bird

All right I was planning to write about the book Evening about two or three or four weeks ago, and that's why I wanted to use the song title Little Bird (by Annie Lennox). The reason I can identify with Ann so well is that I feel like there's more to my life, too. Look at these quotes:

She felt she would accomplish something in her life. She was not sure of the exact nature of what it was, but she was certain that when she came across it she would know it.

...she might have been able to read the spirit within herself and would not have spent her life as if she were only halfway in it...

Her life had not been long enough for her to know the whole of herself, it had not been long enough or wide.

The story is that Ann is dying and has all kinds of flashbacks, mostly related to the wedding of a friend she attended when she was 25 (what a coincidence). That's where she met Harris Arden, tall, good-looking doctor, who kind of seduced her, and who happened to be someone else's groom. It was a several-day-long kind of wedding, in Boston. According to this interpretation he was the love of her life but I'm not sure if she's right in that respect. I mean, sex is sex, and I don't want to moan over someone I had a crush on ages earlier when I'm a granny.
She had three husbands and five (or four?) kids later, and while she is dying, no-one knows what she's thinking and talking about half-consciously. Nobody knows about Harris Arden, and I think it's a sad thing to die without anyone knowing about the time of your life.
The other thing is I think she wanted to make something more out of her wife, not just be a regular wife, I suppose. There's a hint that she could have been a singer, and there are some nice singing scenes in the movie, and that reminds me of my singing ambitions, though I've never wanted to be a professional.
So, back to the song. It's about flying away. It's a very dynamic song and one of the few that Demi Moore dances to in Striptease, and my favourite lines are these:

They always said that you knew best
But this little bird's fallen out of that nest now
I've got a feeling that it might have been blessed
So I've just got to put these wings to test

There are so many things I want I can't even list them. Want to be acknowledged for my voice, my looks, my cooking, my poetry, my teaching. Yeah, what I really want is to be acknowledged, and I suppose it's because Libras are so vain.