Do you know about music? How it's supposed to lift our spirits to the heavens? Or heal a sick, sad soul? How it can make you feel like the singer is talking to you, and only you, and that he feels your emotions - the pain, and joy, and love, and anger - and turns it into something beautiful anyway? Music sets the tone, the mood, the background for our lives. How silent, and chaotic, and ugly would the world be without music to express what we are? Or who we live for?
So play me a song.
Play me a song i can identify with. A song that propels me and lifts me and at the very same time widens the cracks of my wounded heart. Play me a song that speaks about the despair of loneliness, and yet it that reminds me i am not alone in this. Play me a song about desperation, weakness, struggles and everything that is ugly about the human condition - so that i can feel beauty and love and compassion and perhaps even forgiveness. Play me a song that will resonate; that will speak; that will tell me lyrically and melodically that THIS is what you're feeling right now - teach me and show me how to live my emotions. Play me a song that'll let me relive the dark crushing pain of heartache - and perhaps that tune will remind me of love. Play me a song so that its rhythm might guide my heart rate and keep it ferociously pumping Life out of me - even at times when i might feel there is none left.
Play me a song.
the bucket list
Stand on the salt flats of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, watching the sunset.
Hike across the Great Wall of China.
Watch the northern lights and wonder about the other worlds out there.
Conquer the summit of Kinabalu - the highest peak in my beloved nation - to try to catch a glimpse of heaven.
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