You Raise Me Up

The 100th piano cover on Tea with Liya is a song that many of you have heard at some point in your lives - "You Raise Me Up." (A little note: I've been posting some covers on YouTube that aren't over here, so we're actually on post #92 here.) Despite its popularity, the song hasn't been around very long in comparison to my other piano covers - some of the jazz songs I play have been around for 70 or 80 years, and at the times when I do play classical music, those songs are hundreds of years old! I'd better take a step back to our current generation, shouldn't I?

Listen to the song here

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Speaking of generations, I'd like to mention something about the date.

Yes, that's right, the date. September 18, 2019. Just another day like all the 30,000 days that could go by in your life ^♪. Nooothing special about it, is there?

♪30,000 days is about 82 years. Don't waste them.

Hmm...

What's the "Hmm" for?

I'm not so sure that the date is as insignificant as you think it is. While you think about that, let's see how many ways you can write out the date.

Hm. Okay..

• September 18, 2019
• 18 September 2019
• 09/18/2019
• 18/09/2019
• 09.18.2019
• Sept 18/19
• 9/18/19

That's a lot of ways of writing out something that "isn't important," isn't it?

Uh, yeah...

Take a look at the end of your list. What would happen if you tried to write it backwards?

That's a lot of mirrors. Somehow, they form a building. Image by hjrivas from Pixabay

Uh.... Let's see.

Looks like I get.. 9.18.19.

What a coincidence. It turns out that you can do that for any day of the week (although theoretically, it's 10 days). Pick any day from last week Tuesday until tomorrow, and the date will be a palindrome - that is, it can be flipped backwards and still read the same numbers.

Is this the only time it's ever happened?

No. There was also a "palindrome week" in August 2018, July 2017, etc., There won't be another one in October 2020, though. Instead, it'll be in February. But, don't expect them every year. By the time we get to 2098, for example, there won't be any till the turn of the century.

It might be a disappointment to hear that your chances of living till the turn of the century are quite low. Considering the aforementioned 30,000 days or 82 years, you'd practically have to be born yesterday to significantly raise those chances. Even if you were, it's impossible to predict who is going to be alive in 2100.

But, why worry about 2100 when we're here in 2019? There's already lots of beautiful patterns occurring within the days that are right in front of us. Every day holds something that can make you happy, if you take the time to look for it.

Maybe today, it's this post on Tea with Liya. Tomorrow, it could be a bright and sunny day. The next day, some bright red fall leaves. There's no need to know everything that's going to happen to you, when you can just take things one day at a time.

Image by tigerlily713 from Pixabay

And as always, keep filling your teacup with music.

~Liya