Ben Howard - "Further Away"
Everything about this video excites me. Such talent, an impressive feat to see someone embody such... passion, such wholesome greatness - the song is powerful without needing anything extraordinary, and his guitar skills are remarkable. A live performance like this is something I've always imagined doing, and it just helps me refocus.
It's been on repeat for three days.
And in between my learning songs for my friends.
This Friday, I didn't think I'd be able to sit at my computer and hammer out a post. It's the second Camp Camp for an acapella group I'm in [ shout out to `Til Further Notes - you all are awesome people ]. I'm not as used to the constant flow of people, though they're all gathered around, playing board games and gathering as a community - bonding.
It's something I admire. People, obviously, have their ups and downs, and while they may not always click as we'd hope they would. People come and go, friendships start or end, impressions last longer than the words they involve, but it doesn't take anything more than the simplicity of truth and honesty for a strong relationship to build.
I've recently been in touch with friends - new and old - who have aided me in a "recovery" of sorts. Right next to me is great friend, Mary Mechalakos, and she's teaching herself how to disc jockey on the iPad her brother gave her. I know for a fact that if she didn't want to, if she wasn't interested after her friend showed her how to do it, she would not be interested.
A simple reminder that if it's worth doing - if it's important to us, then why not, right?
The recovery pursues a swiveling of insight and understanding on my part. I'm well aware, well conscientious of what goes around me. While I'd love to claim that my mind and body were in tune, on the same track, I can't whole-heartedly admit that. Thankfully, deep talks with some of my close friends and a bit of a discovery spurned by the discovery of another has led me to reexamine my surroundings, my immediate company, and my aspirations in life.
The approach is much more crucial than the outcome. It defines your character and what attributes your person has learned to rehearse.
"Do what you have to do," my mother always tells me. She retains a bit of frustration and resentment in her statements, but that's because she understands that will and motivation, though they differ slightly, rest on one another to coexist and spiral further into the air. The air is free, liberated of the realities of the ground, and while there is the factor of gravity to always pull airborne objects to the earth, the notion of building from the ground, higher and higher, has the same concept as relying on one another to stay airborne.
And if you need to ever come back down to earth, scaling the structure should be as easy, as simple as descending it.
I've got my goals set. I've always had my goals set.
Now I've got my reminders to "be and let be", to enjoy Life and its according graces, whether I perceive them as curses or blessings, and cherish what I have and those around me who have more, less, or the same.
It is not my place to condemn nor is it to falsify one's character, but to manage my own and coexist as best I can with all beings, all other bodies and souls I encounter. To love and be happy with everything in my life, everything that has come and everything that will go.
Sometimes there's a fight required in order to obtain what is really, truly worth it, and the fight leaves you exhausted, on your knees, captivated and overwhelmed...
But it's your fight and no one else's.
And you are always meant to come out as the victor.
Just keep your chin up and keep your guard ready. No matter how tired your arms get, your legs will keep them up if your mind is in it to win.
If you're not in it to win, you were not to be here in the first place.
And you've been given so many opportunities.
"Every time a door closes, a window opens."
And a bird sings of happiness.
"How you've been growin' further away from us,
How you've been growin' further away from us now."
<3 ~ Monty.
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