Showing posts with label love and loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love and loss. Show all posts

Thursday, December 29, 2011

WTF Wednesdays- High time we stop being low

Undulating emotions.
Highs and lows, but mostly lows.
Its a heady explosion of ego and despair.
Self importance, less indulgence.
I cannot justify, cannot explain.
It only gets better, but now this very second its really not.
Reality closes in for that solitary moment and I wonder.
All human beings are not lonely creatures, we long to be together.
So why can we be surrounded by faces and never really see any detail?

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

WTF Wednesdays

I live my life to a seemingly endless internal soundtrack populated by every song I have ever loved. I have started to actually build this endless album on my MP3 player to varied results, but it is a work in progress as much as the rest of my life is, so like my life I am constantly editing and adjusting the order in which a track appears or does not.

What I have noticed while creating this playlist is that for nearly every song I choose there is an emotion or memory associated with it. What this means is that no matter how much I love a song, if it is associated with a memory of sadness or loss every time it plays I essentially relive those events. I seem to associate a song with everything that seems crucial in my life at that time, be it a simple moment of depression or rejection, they all seem to become engrained in my mind. Its like fast forwarding to your favorite part of a film just so you can revel in that moment, the music sets the mood of the scene and is just as important as the lines the actors speak.

So when I want to travel back to a specific moment or feeling I call up a song on my playlist and I am instantly there again, which is especially self destructive for some of my more depressing memories. The ones where I made the wrong decision or, worse still, lost something I actually had. I do not know if this is a common ability or if its just a weird memory association and I am not entirely convinced its a good thing, but its how my brain works so its here to stay.