Like everyone, I become embroiled in daily details and hypnotized by the distractions of life and have to be jolted back to the real reality periodically. I was mindlessly watching television one night several months before my fiftieth birthday, when I became vaguely aware of a short phrase from a song lyric in the back of my mind. It was insistent, distracting me from my media-induced reverie. I paid closer attention and thought I heard "Meet me tonight." Then I heard something about graduation being near. I vaguely remembered a song like this from the sixties. I wondered if my soul was trying to give me a message. I felt driven to find the lyrics because I often receive important guidance from songs — I'll notice myself singing something, then notice that the lyrics answer a question I've been subliminally chewing on.
The very next afternoon, my friend Karen "happened" to be in my neighborhood and stopped by. We chatted over tea, and just before we finished I remembered she was a singer. "Hey! Do you know a song called ‘Meet Me Tonight'?" I described what I could of it to her. She laughed and said, "Sure! But it's not called ‘Meet Me Tonight,' it's ‘Teach Me Tonight' and it's a classic — in fact, I used to do it!" And she hummed a few bars. I was ecstatic! Later that night, about 10pm she called; she'd found her sheet music and read me the lyrics. The love song is punctuated with phrases that could easily have come from some spiritual teacher trying to get me to wake up — phrases like "this is the perfect spot to learn," "help me solve the mystery of it," "should the teacher stand so near?," and "graduation's almost here."
For months I'd had the eerie feeling that I was reaching the end of a long developmental phase. I'd been living with a subtle buzzing sensation like walking through a wall of super-electrified energy, as though all my molecules were being rearranged. I sensed I'd eventually come out the other side an entirely new person — though probably nothing would look much different on the surface. I somehow "knew" that all the old psychological baggage would be dropped, I'd have virtually no memory of past struggles, and I'd step cleanly into a new phase of my life. Spiritually, it did feel like a graduation was at hand. The song helped me recognize this consciously and know that I really was about to step over that invisible line.
It was "Teach me tonight", not 'meet me tonight'. Doris Day...Anyway, your commentary is spot on.