Knowing the difference between comfortable and fulfilling is the one I'll be chewing on all week. Knowing it is the easy half, acting on it is the rest.
What Happened to the Music?
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Knowing the difference between comfortable and fulfilling is the one I'll be chewing on all week. Knowing it is the easy half, acting on it is the rest.
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How can my deepest song attempt to express my deepest thoughts, only to fail at offering even the slightest glimpse of meaning?
It feels like a mediocre diagnosis: offering to numb the symptoms, yet helplessly incapable of curing the disease.
What does our muted perception bring? Nothing but another voice, buried beneath the shallow standards that measure our lives. But what truly feeds my confusion is this: as honest as my voice may be, so few seem capable of hearing it. Is there an unspoken agreement that binds us to sorrow and settling for whatever outcome life happens to offer?
I am confused: in our awareness, we seem utterly unable to escape the expected path, doomed to remain within the quiet discomfort of comfortable conformity. It makes life easier, but far from whole. I know the difference between what is comfortable and what is truly fulfilling. I have seen the void where we surrender every chance to live deeply, hoping that our silence might simply let us see another sunrise.
When does living begin and when does survival end?
What happened to the music?
What happened to my song?
Why speak at all?
Luciano Solís Campos
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The questions at the end get shorter and shorter until the last one barely has any words left. That felt like the song running out of breath on purpose, and it got to me more than the arguments above it.
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Knowing the difference between comfortable and fulfilling is the one I'll be chewing on all week. Knowing it is the easy half, acting on it is the rest.
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A song meant to carry your deepest thoughts that ends up offering barely a glimpse of them is a gap I know well, the one between the thing in your head and what reaches the other person. Reads like this came right after one of those moments. I bet more people caught that glimpse than ever said so, people go quiet exactly when something lands.
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What Happened to the Music?