Where's that rewind button?
I was just laughing with two friends at the incongruency between the words coming out of Eminem's mouth and the tone he uses to say them in his newest little piece, "love the way you lie." He talks about loving someone, but he always sings so angry that it made us chuckle.
Anyway, as he's whining about whatever he typically is whining about (as you can tell I'm not his biggest fan). He mentions, in what I can only assume is supposed to be a sad, regret-filled tone, that in life there's no taking things back.
And I continue to laugh at the incongruency. Though this time I don't think my friends sitting next to me saw it the same way.
And this is the topic of my post tonight. I think that our inability to take back our choices is what makes life great. Everything in life holds value because of this very fact. Life, in its essence, is important to us because of its fragility, because there are no second chances, because we can mess this up and things are that fickle.
And who'd want it any other way? Each one of those things, if we were to take them away, would cheapen this experience. It'd cheapen my happiness, as well as my pain. I don't want to be able to take it back.
Instead, we take the experiences given to us, and we turn them into what makes us human. Morals, beliefs, values, meaning. And when you know this, really really experience it, you don't need to look for a rewind button.
Anyway, as he's whining about whatever he typically is whining about (as you can tell I'm not his biggest fan). He mentions, in what I can only assume is supposed to be a sad, regret-filled tone, that in life there's no taking things back.
And I continue to laugh at the incongruency. Though this time I don't think my friends sitting next to me saw it the same way.
And this is the topic of my post tonight. I think that our inability to take back our choices is what makes life great. Everything in life holds value because of this very fact. Life, in its essence, is important to us because of its fragility, because there are no second chances, because we can mess this up and things are that fickle.
And who'd want it any other way? Each one of those things, if we were to take them away, would cheapen this experience. It'd cheapen my happiness, as well as my pain. I don't want to be able to take it back.
Instead, we take the experiences given to us, and we turn them into what makes us human. Morals, beliefs, values, meaning. And when you know this, really really experience it, you don't need to look for a rewind button.