nessun dorma
what a beautiful song nessun dorma is. i looked up the translation of the lyrics today and it made the music sound even more beautiful. i know it's so pretentious to have foreign languages in your aim profile but it's so beautiful and really touches a nerve with me right now too. i'm letting myself be a silly woman for a little bit and indulging myself in thinking that my mundane self is accurately described by one of the most beautiful opera arias ever written.
another piece of music i've grown to appreciate more lately is the decemberists' latest album, the crane wife. after a couple of listen-throughs, what's crystallized for me is that it's a collection of songs about the people you love and all the ways you can lose them... war, family feuds, murder, especially your own stupidity and greed. and then it ends with a song about the power of family love, the kind that really holds the world together. so even though most of the songs are sad, it always perks me up, in a melacholy kind of way, because it does remind me what's important and why.
things are still going well at work and with life in general :)
whenever things start going too well in my life i get nervous and take every little bad thing way too seriously, because i'm convinced there's no way it can last. life keeps proving me wrong and i keep being stupid. maybe one day i'll get over it and relax.
another piece of music i've grown to appreciate more lately is the decemberists' latest album, the crane wife. after a couple of listen-throughs, what's crystallized for me is that it's a collection of songs about the people you love and all the ways you can lose them... war, family feuds, murder, especially your own stupidity and greed. and then it ends with a song about the power of family love, the kind that really holds the world together. so even though most of the songs are sad, it always perks me up, in a melacholy kind of way, because it does remind me what's important and why.
things are still going well at work and with life in general :)
whenever things start going too well in my life i get nervous and take every little bad thing way too seriously, because i'm convinced there's no way it can last. life keeps proving me wrong and i keep being stupid. maybe one day i'll get over it and relax.