August 28th, 2009 6:32am
Be In Be Out Be In
Taken By Trees “Greyest Love Of All”
If you know what you want — and most likely, what you want is to be loved — it can be so hard to settle your mind and feel comfortable with what you have in the moment. I do not know what your life is like, but I can think of very few moments in my own in which I’ve been fully satisfied. It’s a horrible pattern, things never seem to line up for me. It is so deeply aggravating, it feels so completely unfair, and it warps my perceptions. “Greyest Love Of All” is about this feeling in some way, this discomfort with circumstances and inability to be pleased with the way things are in the present tense, even if there’s plenty of good in exactly what you have. It’s sung from the perspective of someone on the outside looking in, but I like to think of it almost like a prayer to one’s self.
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8/28/09 9:43 am
Have you ever read Eckhart Tolle, Matthew?
8/28/09 9:47 am
I haven’t!
8/28/09 10:14 am
DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER THAT EPISODE OF “SEINFELD” WHERE KRAMER AND THE WEALTHY TEXAN AT THE AIRPORT LOUNGE GAMBLE ON WHICH FLIGHTS WILL ARRIVE LATE?
8/28/09 3:03 pm
Tolle was the first thing that came to mind, reading the post.
Anyway…at the risk of sounding moralizing, I say forget about self.
It’ll still be in there steering you around, but at least you’re freed up to notice something else.
I have a friend who tells me straight to my face “dude, stop thinking about yourself.” Pretty solid advice, serious.
8/30/09 10:26 pm
Invite three to five of your best friends out to an Italian restaurant. Have a two-hour meal minimum, involving bread, salad, entree, dessert, coffee, lots of wine and conversation.
There: a fully satisfying moment out of thin air. And I know there are places in New York where this is not as expensive as it sounds. Or at least a chance to forget the rest of it for a few hours.