As a child, you wanted to be a fireman, then a singer, then a movie star, then an astronaut, then an archeologist specializing in dinosaurs.

In college you wanted to become a doctor, then an economist but found it too hard, so after switching twice, you ended up becoming a teacher, figuring you change the World by reinventing education.

You became a teacher, an idealistic teacher, teach kids to fight the man, the woman. You barely could control the class and after a few years, you were grateful if most kids passed.

After school, you made time for activism, for a better World, for a better You, wishing you would leave an impact.

You were unable to find the partner of your dreams so you married a someone of your realism. It was not a marriage made in heaven but it worked on Earth, more or less.

You never thought that so much of your life’s meaning would be in your children but because your dreams never materialized, life was mainly about your kids.

When you retired, you shrank your goals to appreciating the simple pleasures. You even felt grateful each morning that you woke up.

Your major pleasures were planting and watching flowers grow, hiking and seeing nature, seeing children, eating basic things, and most of all, sitting next to your wife, hand in hand, watching a movie.

On your deathbed, you felt you had a life better than most.

And you did.

Ordinary Lives is a single released by the Bee Gees in 1989, started before Andy Gibb died, but once completed it seems to be a philosophical comment on life and death.

Following the premature death of their younger brother in 1988, the Bee Gees dedicated this song to him.