Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Who Knows

Some nights you just have to let the despair overcome you and cry into your pillow till it's dawn again.

There's probably no other way. The sadness has taken root and doesn't want me to do anything about it. I don't want solutions tonight. Just wish I wasn't so numb, so cold and disconnected that it's a Herculean ask to even talk to someone. About anything. I feel like shutting myself away from everything. Everyone.

It happens, I suppose, if your sounding board of many years and your avenue of venting is suddenly no longer an option. It was a long time coming, I suppose. It would have been too much. I'm crap at communication anyway.

Boring. Such an innocuous little word. Such a hurtful word... One that takes you spiraling down into the rabbit hole of half a glass of empty even weeks after it was last uttered. I don't know if I'll ever be convinced otherwise again. Complacency is such a rude thing, and so very sad and hurtful when you're on the receiving end of it.

Time and distance. Speed. Light and sound. Do they really go hand in hand? Is there even a point to putting yourself through the pain of life only to die alone someday?

I feel alone. And it is something that really bothers me now. It feels wretched that at the end of the day, if anything were to go wrong, there really wouldn't be anyone around to lend support. I guess my lot in life is to be my own source of strength. No faith. No one. Just me. Give and receive only space, and there's nothing left but distance.

Friday, 13 February 2015

Begin Again

Some days, while going through the motions of daily routine, you chance upon a special ray of life, almost on a whim. It can be through music, it can even be through a story, and when it happens through both, it is magical.

I'm no stranger to being moved by movies. Begin Again was one such. Delightful not just in its simplicity, the story slowly draws smile after smile out of you. From the beautifully placed narrative to the songs that find a cozy place to curl up within your heart... I've been humming Lost Stars all evening, and just can't get enough of how much hope there is to be found, even in despair. It makes one realize that life doesn't have to be perfect to be able to enjoy it.

If you haven't watched the movie, do watch it, and:

"Let's get drunk on our tears."