for me, this is one of those songs that leaves you feeling like the songwriter has the power to look into the corners of your heart and mind - even those corners you try not to let anyone else see and that sometimes you try to forget are there too. its kinda like someone holding up a mirror for you.
i was surprised by the ah-ha feeling i got from this song. it makes me think about how strongly inclined people are to believe their experiences, thoughts, feelings, etc are unique. despite all evidence to the contrary, despite logic and reason, we seem predisposed to feel like no one else has experienced what we have (or at least not the same way we have) or that no one else feels the way we do. and its just not true; all you have to do to see that is read a book, listen to a song, look at a painting, or listen to a friend. i think that on some level we all know this -- that others have hurt, been broken hearted, lost, struggled, etc. but for some reason, in the space and time of those moments/thoughts/feelings, it just doesnt feel that way.
people are weird.
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ah, but it is unique. Even if everyone has felt loss, struggle, a broken heart, everyone processes it differently - deals with it differently. It is different because what we as individuals do with it is our own. No one else shares my genetic makeup or background therefore no one goes through life feeling, thinking, or acting exactly how I do. We all feel the same things - it makes us human - it makes it possible to survive - but, we can't know that one person feels love the exact same way another person does...or that one person feels hate the same way everyone else does. We can try. Lord knows psychology tries everyday but I like the mystery. It is the action that really counts...the process ,not the feeling, that makes it so very unique to each and every one of us.
you make a good point... people deal with things and interpret things differently, and that matters. i think ultimately the subjectivity - our individual way of seeing it, making sense of it, interpreting it, etc - is what makes it unique. and since ultimately that is how we experience reality and live our lives - through our subjective lens, how can that be ignored?
i guess when i listened to this song i felt pulled from my subjective world of singular-ness and uniqueness to an objective perspective that what ive felt has been felt before and what ive experienced has been experienced before. then again, this is just my subjective interpretation of what this song is about anyway...lol
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