Yes, I learned something about my life from attending a Nik Day concert. And by the way, he did an awesome job. I'm thinking of buying some of his songs on Facebook. He played one called "One in a Million" that really resonated with me, but I don't think it's available yet. :P
In any case, that's the song I wanted to talk about. Or rather, that's one of the songs that is in the medley of songs I found interesting and enlightening.
As I was at the concert, I was sort of able to zone out and think just about the song and the lyrics and apply them to my own life (wish I could do that better with the scriptures, neh?) and I realized something I find interesting:
I feel as though my life is very much like a wavelength. But it's very standard, and it resides within some very stringent parameters. My life seems to be a series of ups and downs which, though not going too far down, never really go too far up, either. (Interjection: Let me preface this by saying that I have spoken with a doctor about some of my personal issues, and he was feeling that my high points and my low points were dangerously far apart, that is that, while the high points weren't exactly bad where they were, but that the low points dropped too far below where they ought to be (putting me in states of depression). This wasn't good, and he suggested medication). As I listened to Nik Day and his band play, I felt emotions about people I knew, and wondered... It seems to me that whenever I try to transmit an idea or an emotion, something is lost in the process. For instance, if I try to quote a movie, you don't really get the full movie experience because the only thing you're doing is listening to me talking, and you don't get the whole experience. Similarly, when I try to relate an idea I've been having, it makes so much more sense in my head than it does when it comes out of my mouth. So it only makes sense to me that a person trying to transmit an emotion through song will lose something in the process, or rather, that the audience will not feel the emotion as strongly as the artist does. Therefore, the (what felt like) massive amounts of emotion I was feeling must've been at least a bit less than what Nik Day was feeling when he wrote the song. And I wonder how it would be do feel emotions that strongly. I feel like my conditions have suppressed my emotions considerably to the point where I don't feel them the same as other people. In any case, I want to feel those things, but I do not want to experience the lows. But I feel as though to do so would be paradoxical. Just wanted to express that idea. Thanks for reading.
Oh, and I recommend the "One in a Million" song. Also, (ones that are on iTunes) "Monopoly," "Now That You're Gone," and, "How Could Life Get Any Better."
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