My Way!

I've lived a life that's full.
I've traveled each and ev'ry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

 Tonight I met with some friends and went to a Norae Bang. One of my friends is a Korean and instead of Karaoke where you sing in a big room with a bunch of strangers they have small rooms where you pay by the hour and sing with just your friends. Singing rooms (Norae-Singing Bang-Room) are a fun way to kill time and embarrass yourself with friends. When I was there I was reminded of the many years I lived in Korea. When we first got there my family, two daughters (at that time) and my wife and I would have dinner at a chicken restaurant every Sunday and then go to a Norea Bang. We did it every Sunday for the first 3 years we were there. I don't think Sarah ever went with us since it is hard to take an infant to a singing room. Every time we went my kids would sing Korean children songs, their mom would sing a

few Korean songs and after they insisted I sing also. I always struggled with what I would sing and always settled on My Way. No real reason I chose that except I could sing it with emotion. As I sang it tonight I had a tear in my eye remembering that time! As I was singing I was thinking about my kids and I knew my daughters would remember going when they were kids so I texted the one daughter that is in the States and sent the picture. Then I remembered that the daughter I texted was the only one that wasn't with us.

My oldest 2 daughter are in Korea and I usually text them using Kakao, but I lost them on my phone recently so I sent a message to my youngest daughter. After I sent it to her I felt silly since she wouldn't know the significance of that song. Sarah is taking a karaoke class in college and she had that class tonight. In the class tonight they talked about the song My Way and the teacher was talking about the controversy behind the song. She texted back to me thinking of the coincidence that I was singing that song.