Today’s Song of the Day is a very meaningful one to me.
Two years ago, the movie Once moved a relationship I was in to another level. It was a perfect, sweet moment.
Before that moment, I kept thinking that maybe I had moved from one relationship to the next too fast, without allowing myself to morn the previous. This spectacular, connecting moment made two hearts beat as one and removed any doubt in my mind.
But like everything challenging in the world, two people get too comfortable, and begin to question whether or not that burn of compassion was ever there in the first place. Whether comfort and warmth and love are enough. Is there more to this thing, this thing we called two parts of a whole? When butterflies don’t flutter as often as they used to, does that mean the passion that lives deep in our hearts is forever gone? I know it was there once. I know I was there once.
Not everything is 100% - usually, 80%, and we look for the missing 20% elsewhere - even though obtaining the 20 means leaving the 80 behind. So often we want a taste of something different, when what we might need is across the river, twiddlin’ their thumbs in fantod.
That’s why today’s song is important - because it encompasses everything I want in my life, everything I care about. Everything I want to grow with. Everything I want to walk a lifetime with, while knowing that walk is not being shared with some(any)one else. Call me sappy, a hopeless romantic, an asshole, whatever.
Today’s Song of the Day is “When Your Mind’s Made Up” by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the soundtrack to the movie Once.
Enjoy.
