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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 |
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 |
Today is one of those days where you feel subdued and reflective. I was reading some poems from LOTR and this one stuck out at me. It's about the sadness that comes with the passing of time and is one of my favorites.
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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I need to write in my journal. I haven't done that in a while. Keeping a journal is helpful in several ways. For one thing: it helps bring issues to the surface and allows you to put them in a better light. For another: just writing random thoughts down, like you would in a journal, helps stimulate ideas for songs or poetry. The problem is starting the writing process. lol That's always a bitch. One of the best ways to overcome writer's block is to just jot down random thoughts, and then see where they lead. It's hard to do even that, though, on a cold grey winter day...or is it? Maybe I just need to learn how to appreciate cold grey days more often. Well this blog is just random thoughts itself. So maybe I'll get some ideas from writing here. |
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Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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Saturday, 29 November 2008 |
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I really don't like when I'm trying to create a new beat, but I feel like everything I'm starting has been done before. Frustratinggggggg as all hell! It's one of those times where you just have to force yourself to write and get past whatever buriers are holding your thoughts from flowing.. Saturday evenings during the winter have a nostalgic feeling about them for some odd reason. I seem to have no other desire than to just sit back and reminisce about days that will never come again. I know, I know, all sounds dull and even a bit depressing, but hey: life can't be all about cookies and icecream 24/7. Besides, this melancholia is eventually bound to stir up some creativity. |
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Friday, November 28, 2008 |
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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Well it’s been a while since I’ve written; so where to begin? A topic that has recently been coming up frequently between myself and different friends is the notion of platonic friendship between straight men and women. Platonic, for me, is problematic. A straight heterosexual guy doesn’t linger around in a platonic relationship simply for the mere pleasure of platonicism itself. In the back of their mind: they’re hoping for one of two things; either sex, or a long-term relationship. Any girl who doesn’t believe that and thinks a heterosexual guy is sticking around as her Platonic friend simply for the friendship itself is deceiving herself. A great priest friend/spiritual director of mine once said, “whenever someone claims [platonic,] (and it's usually the girls who love using that word,) it usually means they have deeper feelings they’re repressing for whatever reason.” I couldn’t agree more. In the words of a female friend of mine, “platonic = demonic.” Amen, sister!
Onto a completely different topic: if a friendship between a male and female was destroyed, can it resume down the road and become what it once was? My simple answer is most likely not. It’s too difficult for several reasons; especially if the two people involved ended things on bad terms. My more complex answer is that it can’t attain its former status. It will never reach that point that had once satisfied both people, it will either transcend its former status by evolving into intimacy between the man and woman, (and even that is difficult because of circumstancial as well as emotional reasons,) or it will simply remain stagnant, and the people involved will communicate once in a while, and nothing more. Ah well my 2 cents for the evening. I’ll be updating my blog quite regularly. So stop by and check me out. New music is also on the horizon. |
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Friday, 08 June 2007 |
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A friend asked me the other day if I believe in soulmates. I guess I'll start by examining what people might consider a "soulmate." A soulmate, by most people's definition of the term, is a person who we develop a unique attachment to. This attachment is unique in the sense that we will not find another person on Earth with whom we have a similar attachment, like we do with this person. This attachment can be between friends, but in most instances, people are refering to lovers, of course. Okay, so now that we've established what most people view as a soulmate; I'll answer the next question. Do I believe that we only have one soulmate during our lives? No, I don't. I don't think that God decided to give us only one person with whom we'll have an attachment to that can never be duplicated with anyone else. For one thing, this goes back to something I talked about in one of my other entries; the notion of opportunities. God gives us opportunities throughout our lives. We meet different people at different points in our lives, and we have a different type of relationship with each of those people. Some of those relationships are permanent, and others are not. Here's something to consider for those who are obstinate about that special "soulmate," who they think is the only soulmate they'll ever have. Have you ever noticed when you like someone for a period of time; whether it's a girlfriend, boyfriend, or even a friend, and then you drift apart for whatever reason: When you try and come back to that relationship, you find that it no longer interests you or captivates you the way it did "back in the day," as the saying goes? Hmm, doesn't this now take the hype out of who you thought was your "eternal soulmate?" Yeah I suppose people can say that they've come back to someone after years, and they've picked up right where they'd left off. That's wonderful! However, you will also have situations like the one I mentioned above, where people who thought they were soulmates will drift apart, and will come back years later, and can never resume what they had. "It's just not the same anymore," is the cliche statement we hear all too often. |
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 |
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I've always wondered what causes people to become nostalgic. I suppose one of its causes, (and probably a major one,) is the fact that often times, things rarely work out like we imagined they would while we were growing up. While growing up, especially throughout highschool and early college years, I think we tend to envision and firmly believe that our lives are going to shape out exactly like we dream and plan. As time goes on, and we get older; we realize that the events and circumstances in our lives all too often alter the shape of our initial dreams and goals. So, because of this, we begin to understand the ambivalence and instability of life. It's that realization that causes us to yearn for a now idealized past, that "seems" to offer more stability than the unknown future, which we become more aware of as we move along our road in life. Our careers change and, alot of times, we don't end up pursuing what we originally thought we would. People who we think will remain in our lives go their own way, and our paths are sundered from one another forever. I know I'm explaining only one of the causes of nostalgia, and I'm sure there are others, or perhaps someone else can elaborate on this explanation. |
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