This Is The Thing
I’m currently really really really happy, inexplicably so, as I think about “the past” and my “present future” in a very specific way. Yeah. Comparison might be a bad thing long term, but right now it’s a wonderful thing. And it is the oddest things that remind me.
For example this song which I heard at the end of an episode of The Unit and I had to track down after hearing the line “there are things that keep me alive.” I found the artist Fink and this song.
Hearing all the words brought me to an insane place of happiness with where I am at by comparison. (You can delete the “alone” part, and insert the obvious.
Enjoy
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I don’t know if you notice anything different.
It’s getting dark and it’s getting cold and the nights are getting long.
And I don’t know if you even notice at all that I’m long gone, babe I’m long gone.
And the things that keep us apart keep me alive
There are things that keep me alive: keep me alone.
This is the thing.
I don’t know if you notice anything missing
Like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over the floor.
And I don’t know if you even notice at all
‘Cause I was real quiet when I closed the door
And the things that keep us apart keep me alive.
There are things that keep me alive: keep me alone.
This is the thing.
And I don’t know if you notice anything different
I don’t know if you even notice at all.
Wisdom From Good Will Hunting
Will: My father was an alcoholic. Mean f__kin’ drunk. Used to come home hammered, looking to whale on someone. So I had to provoke him, so he wouldn’t go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings… He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, “Choose.”
Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.
Will: I used to go with the wrench.
Sean: Why?
Will: Cause f__k him, that’ why.
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This scene has come up repeatedly today in conversation and for some reason it feels completely fitting for this time of the year.
- Tax time during an economic crisis
- Seniors figuring out whether they will pull it together to graduate
- Major life transitions happening for many
- People returning to church/religion/repentance
- Christ responding to evil/sin/Death
People have their reasons to fight back against the prevailing insanity around them, in unpredictable ways, ways they didn’t think they had in them, until something more important, something that truly matters, raises its head.
But I could be crazy for such a comparison. Wouldn’t be the first time.