So can I get a window seat/Don't want nobody next to me/I just want a ticket outta town/A look around/And a safe touch down... I just want a chance to fly/A chance to cry/And a long bye bye...

Despite much of the ridiculous (in my opinion) rhetoric currently in progress around the "out of the box" nature of the visual presentation of this song, Erykah was right on point with her rendition of, what seems like, a recurring theme amongst mothers. The pull between being everyone's everything, and wanting/needing to be freed from the spotlight sometimes; and furthermore, the guilt often associated with "laying down on the job" or the practice of putting self last simply because of the need to be needed. No matter what stage of the motherhood game you are in, chances are, you can surely relate...

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