Monday, February 12, 2007

Would you lie with me and just forget the world...

*Just a thought...( sorry if i sound like a tree hugger or summin like that)

As i flip through the pages of a book, so do i flip through the pages of my life.
The numbers of the pages, become the days recorded and i lie here reviving every living memory in my head. Each memory becomes a chapter in my life, whether it be heartbreak or joy.
They are always there.
They can be disguised as your worst nightmare, gnawing at every thought produced or may even rip your self esteem to shreds. These memories may serve as stepping stones, keeping us afloat, when we often forget who we are. Yet we still tend to hold onto them.

Sometimes i find myself tracing my footsteps into the past. Who i was. What i believed. Who were my friends and my support. I find it fascinating to see how our lives have changed over the years. How our character has changed and who we are. I don't think i could erase any of these memories, whether being good or bad.

If one looks back, it is so easy to pick up the scattered pieces we leave behind in life.
Think about your first true group of friends, your first girl/boyfriend or your first kiss. Our lives tell a whole story. I still have the photos strategically placed in a file, as if a chapter in my life was now closed. It's scary to think we just slap our lives in a book.

The music i listened to at the time has now become a melody of fairwell.I find it so strange that whenever i stumble across a song i played during a certain stage in my life, it takes me back to that moment and it were as if i were there again.
It's sometimes so scary to think we pack away our lives as the world turns. As we slap the memories onto a new, blank page everyday, we often forget to take the time to treasure these moments. We wish our lives away too much. We sit in anticipation, staring at the blank pages before us and never notice the story of today.

Someday and probably sooner than expected, this stage in my life is going to merely serve as another chapter in life. One day i'm going to read the book of my life and this is the song that will be playing over and over in my head:

Snow Patrol Chasing Cars Lyrics

We'll do it all Everything On our own
We don't need Anything Or anyone
If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know How to say How I feel
Those three words Are said too much They're not enough
If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time Chasing cars Around our heads
I need your grace To remind me To find my own
If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am All that I ever was Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see
I don't know where Confused about how as well
Just know that these things Will never change for us at all

If I lay here If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Wow Claire, awesome post! And best of all is it had not a single mention of boys in it! Nostalgia is a great emotion, one of my favourites! Its so many different feelings all packaged into one word, Nostalgia=(Remorse+ Joy+Sadness+fear+hope) all these things teach us so much about how we became who we are today... Anyways enough waffling... GREAT POST!