I know there are a lot of people who don't want to hear me say this and there are also a lot of people who want to hear me say this. I apologize to the former.
Lately, I've been listening to Coldplay. This stems from a conversation I had with one of my professors who asked me if I did indeed listen to them because I like Mat Kearney so much. Now, I was pretty anti-Coldplay for a while because I thought all their songs sounded the same or far too similar. I'm really digging this song called Fix You. I saw it on the HD Music Channel I get at the house and I was just blown away. It's so soothing. I looked up the lyrics and found that apply wonderfully to love (at least in the way I view it) and relationships (at least in the way I view them). I also figured that it would be a great opportunity to embed my first youtube video.
I think the chorus is the part that is the most interesting to me. I think the goal of every romantic relationship is to try to fix or complete another person. I think so many relationships fail because we spend so much time thinking about ourselves rather than remembering that relationships are about two becoming one and the two people fixing each other rather than our self-centered view when we are single.
I think home is such a wonderful idea. Home is where we are most able to be ourselves because we're a lot less worried about what people think of us. Home has so much to do with the people around us than an actual place though. I spend most of my year in a dorm room, but my home is about 30 minutes away from my dorm room, with the people I'm most comfortable with. I'm a year and a half away from being on my own for the first time. I'll be paying rent and bills and everything else and I'll be supporting either one or two people (depending on whether or not she keeps me). I'll be creating a home.
I guess my true message is to everyone, but I have one person in particular that these last few words are for.
"Lights will guide you home,
and ignite your bones,
and I will try to fix you"
-Fix You by Coldplay
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Great post 'ol roommate. I agree completely- especially when you say:
"I think the goal of every romantic relationship is to try to fix or complete another person. I think so many relationships fail because we spend so much time thinking about ourselves rather than remembering that relationships are about two becoming one and the two people fixing each other rather than our self-centered view when we are single."
I mean- thats what I did with every other relationship before my current one and yet look at them and look at the one now- quite a different thing. I told you many times before my current relationship was a relationship that there was something different about her, something I couldnt place my finger on- and now I know: Completeness. I think thats how you know who God has set apart for you- when you find the person that completes you and that you complete. Dont know if that is what you were trying to get across- but thats what I got. I miss talking to you- we should hang out this semester- fo real.
-Lawrence
P.S.- Guess that since you've realized the error of your ways and saw that Coldplay's songs are not all the same- then maybe a realization is in the mix for Nickelback as well... HAHA... jkjk... even if you tried it would still all sound the same.
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