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 Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| This blog post inspired by the 48 Hour Challenge Media Prompt due August 7, 2020. Prompt: Music video âThis Too Shall Passâ by OK Go I am one of those people who always need to know the lyrics to a song in order to know if I like it or not. Iâve been caught out before, being drawn in by a catchy hook and infectious melody only to find out a song that I thought I liked was really about something horrible and I couldnât sing it in front of my children. So I did look up the lyrics of the song but first I listened to the music and watched the video. The visuals immediately spoke to me. The music was merely background to the message that the video was presenting. I liked the music, but it wasnât what made an impression on me first. I guess itâs because I was having a rough day. I just got off track today, thatâs all. I couldnât find any words to write. Any words I had previously written proved not to be good enough. I felt like everything in my life was out of my control and I couldnât do anything to get it back to normal. And then the dominoes started falling in the video, and things just took off from there and I realized that this song perfectly fit my life today. Itâs just one reaction after another after another, seeming to follow a prescribed course but ultimately leading to chaos. Thatâs not really a good message, but that is where the lyrics did save it. This too shall pass. We know thatâs true, at least we acknowledge it intellectually, but on a really bad day when your life is zooming along knocking over this and that and you cannot prevent the cause and effect, itâs not so easy to remember. Still, while all the chaos is going on, they just keep reassuring the listener that âthis too shall passâ and recommending that âyou canât keep letting it get you downâ. The lyrics are a bit simple and repetitive, but perhaps a simple message is sometimes the most effective. Sometimes you donât need a complex philosophical message, you just need to hear that we all get down, we all have burdens that we carry around and that tomorrow is another day. A day that might bring relief, that might bring resolution. So, I donât know if I am a new fan of this group or their music, but for a few minutes today I was able to stop my inner drama and see the bigger picture. Of course, I will probably go right back to feeling sorry for myself, but that too shall pass. |
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