My Theme Song
Posting this was a spontanous decision, because the rant I was planning to post next is taking a bit longer to write (my ranting always turns out longer than expected... I should be used to it by now).
So this time, I want to tell you something about me.
As most of you might know (or have realized by now), I love music. Next to songs I just like to ( Read more... )
So this time, I want to tell you something about me.
As most of you might know (or have realized by now), I love music. Next to songs I just like to ( Read more... )
For some reason, I realized just now that you wrote me a comment to that entry.
Truth be told, I was in one of my 'weird moods' when I wrote this. It sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? To be precise, it sounds a bit like one of my stories. Funnily enough, that's's the only way I can write about myself, by treating myself like one of my characters. And as I said before, my life is like one bad novel.
In recent years, I tried to make up for things I did wrong in the past. If I can say one positive thing about myself, it's that I'm very loyal to my friends and would sacrifice everything for them. This is why I said I'm 'caring'.
Yes, it's an odd situation when you have a friend who talks about their negative sides, and you listen, but as soon as they stop, you say: "No, that's not true." You can't even understand why they see themselves as negatively as they do. I've been in the exact same position with friends of mine, I know what it's like, still I can't believe if someone tells me: "Seriously, you are not as bad as your portrait yourself."
Thank you for trying anyway. As you know, my 'task in life' is to make a difference, and if you tell me that I'm making a difference for you, it means that I don't completely fail at life ;)
Honestly: Thank you. Your kind words mean a lot to me, they really do. You mean a lot to me.
And believe me when I say this: All I really want is to see you happy. Because you deserve it. You have been through so much, you have been so incredibly strong. Therefore, you should have all the luck and joy in life that is anyhow possible. I'll pray for that.
Now I seriously need to stop, before I get over-dramatic :) Let me just assure you one last time that I really, really mean it (Oh great, now I even borrow a catchphrase from my characters... Remember 'I mean it.'?).
You are right. Shame on me for not mentioning that! Oxymoron is a specialization (or a subcathegory) of Paradox.
While a lot of people use Paradox when they mean 'contradiction in general', it is actually supposed to be used for a "contradictory statement which, upon closer inspection, is found to be true", like "We die and rise the same" (which seems contradictory because dead people are dead and don't get up again, but actually it's true, because according to various religous beliefs, there is either heaven/paradise or a new life after death; therefore, one 'rises again').
A Paradox in this song is for example the line "What if I'm a siren singing gentlemen to sleep" (because sirens don't sing lullabies for people; they normally attract men by their song in order to kill them. Yet according to poetry, death is just a deeper form of sleep...).
Oxymoron, on the other hand, is a "combination of two apparently contradictory terms" (in contrast to Pradox, they don't make sense, not even when you look closer. Also it's usually just two words - most of the time an adjective that contradicts the noun it goes with - not a whole expression).
Looking at this song, you can easily see it's the most important stylistic device in there... (like in "kindest demon").
I tried to remember if I ever used an oxymoron in my writing before, and the only thing I can recall right now is that passage from "Unspoken" where Gen talks about 'screaming silence'. Oxymorons are very hard to come up with deliberately...
(Sorry for the lecture... ;)
I love all the lines in that song, especially the oxymorons, but also the images (the beginning about the chair and the floor is actually just supposed to say "I have a different perspective on things") and the simple statements like "I don't change just to suit your vision" (that was actually something I had to learn first of all...).
I'm off to bed now, it's past midnight already. Hope you had a nice day.
Thank you very, very much for always being there for me.
*HUGS* *HUGS* *HUGS*
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