Talked to a former love last week - lots of memories and the sad realization that the chapter entitled "Him and I" is long closed and there is no opportunity for a sequel. I've never been great at letting go of things when it wasn't my decision to let it go in the first place. (And even when it's my decision, I'm still not that stellar at letting go.)
Been listening to Mayday Parade's "Jamie All Over" a lot lately. The lead singer looks like a friend who died young. And the lyrics echo how I am feeling now.
The section of the song that says:
Please don't tell me that I'm dreaming
When all I ever wanted was to dream another sunset with you
If I roll over when it's over
I'll take this Cali sunrise with me
Been listening to Mayday Parade's "Jamie All Over" a lot lately. The lead singer looks like a friend who died young. And the lyrics echo how I am feeling now.
The section of the song that says:
Please don't tell me that I'm dreaming
When all I ever wanted was to dream another sunset with you
If I roll over when it's over
I'll take this Cali sunrise with me
And wake up with the fondest memories
particularly rings true for how I'm feeling about this particular former love. It felt like a dream when it was happening and now I have to move the experience from the "current life state" category to the "fond memory" category. I feel like once I flip the switch and make that move, I have to embrace the fact that the chapter truly has ended. And for awhile I was not ready to do that. I felt like in holding on, perhaps there was a chance for resuscitation. But you can't breathe life into a bloated, dead corpse.
I have all these memories of trips to Vegas (hence Mayday Parade's song) and life in California ... it seems so far away from my grasp and yet right on the tip of my tongue. It's amazing how much joy and pain we can pack into a lifetime.
I met this singer recently - he and I basically have this shared foundational base of great musical loves. It was wonderful finishing each other's sentences and feeling like we basically shared the same brain. I keep thinking I'm this unique snowflake and yet this year I keep meeting people who are my doppelgängers for some or all parts of my life.
In Saturday's blog post, I had a clip of Everlast's song "Broken." A crazy, dysfunctional wild man had sent me the link. He reminds me of someone I used to be a million lifetimes ago ... I'd like to think I have evolved, but part of my heart definitely understands how his heart and mind work. Perhaps 2012 is all about empathy and realizing the interconnectedness of the world. That we're not alone - there are parts of ourselves in so many other people. We are like a global family.
There's this adage that goes something like you can't bring anything new into your life if you're too busy holding on to the old stuff ... so now that a new month has begun - April 2012 - it's high time for some spiritual spring cleaning to make way for new things, new people and new opportunities in my life.
But I won't completely scrub the decks ... I'll leave a little room for some fond memories.
particularly rings true for how I'm feeling about this particular former love. It felt like a dream when it was happening and now I have to move the experience from the "current life state" category to the "fond memory" category. I feel like once I flip the switch and make that move, I have to embrace the fact that the chapter truly has ended. And for awhile I was not ready to do that. I felt like in holding on, perhaps there was a chance for resuscitation. But you can't breathe life into a bloated, dead corpse.
I have all these memories of trips to Vegas (hence Mayday Parade's song) and life in California ... it seems so far away from my grasp and yet right on the tip of my tongue. It's amazing how much joy and pain we can pack into a lifetime.
I met this singer recently - he and I basically have this shared foundational base of great musical loves. It was wonderful finishing each other's sentences and feeling like we basically shared the same brain. I keep thinking I'm this unique snowflake and yet this year I keep meeting people who are my doppelgängers for some or all parts of my life.
In Saturday's blog post, I had a clip of Everlast's song "Broken." A crazy, dysfunctional wild man had sent me the link. He reminds me of someone I used to be a million lifetimes ago ... I'd like to think I have evolved, but part of my heart definitely understands how his heart and mind work. Perhaps 2012 is all about empathy and realizing the interconnectedness of the world. That we're not alone - there are parts of ourselves in so many other people. We are like a global family.
There's this adage that goes something like you can't bring anything new into your life if you're too busy holding on to the old stuff ... so now that a new month has begun - April 2012 - it's high time for some spiritual spring cleaning to make way for new things, new people and new opportunities in my life.
But I won't completely scrub the decks ... I'll leave a little room for some fond memories.
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