Defying Gravity

I’ve been listening to the "Wicked" soundtrack recently and the song Defying Gravity really stands out in my mind. Now, I’ve never seen the show or read the book so I don’t know for sure what’s going on, but I do know that Elphaba is thinking about becoming wicked in this song.
She mentions that she’s through playing by the rules of someone else’s game, and that something within her has changed. By that she probably means that she doesn’t want to be nice anymore because something happened that has altered her way of thinking. When she says something is not the same within her, that leads us to believe that she has had a negative experience that changed her mind about things.
Elphaba asks Glinda to come with her, but Glinda obviously thinks that Elphie is just having “delusions of grandeur” about how nice being wicked would be. Glinda wishes her luck and tells Elphie that she hopes she’ll be happy, and with that the friends part ways.
In this song, defying gravity is not necessarily a good thing. It’s one of Elphaba’s final descents into wickedness, but defying gravity can be a good thing. It’s important for each of us to defy the gravity in our own lives that’s bringing us down. We need to make our own decisions and not let others influence the way we act. Defying gravity is like overcoming obstacles we each face in our lives. As in the song, there will always be two sides to every story, and we need to decide for ourselves which is the right path for us to follow. Sometimes we'll have to choose a different path than our friends, but it's for our best interest.
The term "defying gravity" implies something hard or almost impossible, and defying gravity certainly is hard, but we can't let anyone or anything bring us down from reaching our full potential.

Defying Gravity lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/wicked/defyinggravity.htm