I never had seen this video until tonight. I just hooked my phone up to the car, pulled up youtube, and started one of their playlists to see what, if anything, i might hear that might strike my fancy from work to home, and this was what came on just as i pulled n2 the drive, and I love the song n hadnt heard it in ages, so i sat n watched the video......and....... DAMN....... if it isnt some fairly real world, parts of life and truth that we dont want the world to know or see... i thought, what if each of us was made, one day a year or month, or however often, to wear a sign all day hung around them, and from the last time you hung one, whatever the worst part of you had been since, thats what would be written and there wud be no choice in it, knowing the world knew what you had been so meticulous about leaving out of you FB profile, hell, even burried SO DEEP, your wife/husband/mother/father/your bestie who knows you better than ANYONE ever, and is always there, and you for them......(n so on n so forth), we all know the words that can be shuffled around by literally EVERYONE, to try and illustrate the exact same points about ourselves and our friends and our lives, as the last person to post in the news feed........ but never do we dare say anything pure, or undistorted, or free from being shapened n shopped n carefully crafted n molded, and just the right amount of every angle covered, so that no matter which way or when they look, they are always to come upon a big smile and wave.... words can be used like social steroids these days....... But when it comes down to the knitty gritty...... those 26 posts a day... are they really there so your bestie can know they are STILL your bestie for another day, lucky them.... or is it somethjng else.... like camouflage.... a whole planet , ever busy and hard at thought for whats going to be the next ornament hung on the tree or the next perfect blend of color to help the constant battle to paint ourselves happy, and to keep a potato sack over that sign that we still see hanging from our necks when we take a pause from staring at the phone and the competition, and look in the mirror and see ourselves, starring back at us is the one person above all the rest, who we are trying SO DAMN HARD to convince, perhaps it will become less difficult in the future, for us to just put the paint can down, and pick up some tools instead, and start working on improving what matters most instead of continuing the relentless n never ending cycle of just trying to paint over, cover up, and hide our faults, flaws, wrongs, and insecurities.... and if we cud learn the trick to letting go.... wouldnt we be able to eventually improve enough to where our sign can hang right there for all see, maybe not perfect, or one that breeds envy in those around us, but just one that we could be okay with ourselves, enough at least to where the paint could stay in the shed and we could use that effort and energy to truley positive and meaningful end.......... JUST SOME RANDOM THOUGHT......
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:36:44 +0000
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