Presumptions...

Presumptions and things that are not there.

The Haunting.

Up on this hill, in this uncanny house
The wind makes this place creak, the lights they are flickering.
The moon she is lurking, the clock it stopped working
At a quarter past three.
There's something dancing here in the shadows
And I wish it were us.

You haunt me baby, you haunt me here tonight.
You haunt me baby, you haunt me here tonight.
Tonight.
Tonight.

Can't get your memory, off of my mind, my mind.
Just want your heartbeat, on top of mine, of mine.
There's something dancing, here in the shadows
And I wish it were us.

You haunt me baby, you haunt me here tonight.
You haunt me baby, you haunt me here tonight.
Tonight.
Tonight.

Up on this hill, in this uncanny house.
Your spirit I can't see, but I still believe
I can feel your breath on me.

You haunt me baby, you haunt me here tonight.
You haunt me baby, you haunt me here tonight.
Tonight.
Tonight.

Up on this hill, in this uncanny house.


The Haunting - Anberlin

You’re only haunted by something if you allow yourself to be. Ghosts. Not there. No matter what you do or say it’s not there. You can live with some things and let them haunt but that won’t change that they aren’t there. The haunting. Beautiful song by Anberlin. Reminds me of a friend that suggested it a few years ago. Never said thank you. It did inspire a story or two, although it wasn’t the one it should have inspired. Sometimes I think it’s why my friend suggested that track to me. Also the song reminds me of things that get stuck… 

Fighting with Inanimate objects.

So…. Had a fight with the CD player in my car the other day. My musical home away from home and the thing ate my CD. Aptly enough it was stuck and not only was it stuck it wouldn’t play. So I yelled. Screamed. Cursed. Love to do that sometimes. Got any good words? Anyhow, this one-sided fight had me saying all these horrible things to an object that won’t care. It doesn’t matter what I say there’s no way it will react and do anything different. It won’t get its feeling hurt or offended. The CD stays stuck. The point being, we ought to fight with inanimate objects more often. They won’t care so why not fight with an inanimate object? As opposed to loved ones. Go on… yell and toss that glass of red wine at the empty sofa. Guess what? The damage will only be the stain and perhaps some broken glass. Both can be cleaned up versus the angry meaningless discussion over irrelevant points and tossing hurtful stones. Fighting. That’s a loaded term. Be lover not a fighter, but be prepared to defend yourself. Does that make sense? In all actuality you should never really be fighting against something. You should be fighting for something. Remember a riot is uncontrolled without purpose whereas a mass is a controlled manifestation that represents a cause.  And always keep the battle present. No one is getting anywhere in a discussion by bringing up anything extraneous. Needless to say all is forgiven with my CD player. Unstuck. It eventually spit out the disc and well I guess I won’t have to sell the whole thing. For now.

Presumptions.

I love presumptions! Love when people do this. Don’t you?  Haha. It’s laughable. You can’t help but laugh. Oh but it’s easier to draw conclusions than to ask the simple truth. People can’t possibly understand what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes but they continually sit back and assume to know what is really happening. There have been more than a few times that I’ve made a quick judgment without thinking it through and most of you have as well. A friend or two have, for the most part, broken me of that habit. Did you know it takes 28 days to change a habit? I didn’t know that until a while back. Break the bad habits and stop making presumptions… this is good advice for everyone. We can’t understand what someone is thinking, saying or doing without asking. Presumption is more about the person making the assumptions than the person in question. Sometimes there’s more going on than meets the eye or ear. Something I learned a few years ago from an interesting turn in my life was that “you can’t compare yours with theirs” and this applies in any situation. Through some required classes to satisfy the mandated demands of a difficult situation I was told: “Your situation is not the same as their situation. You can’t compare your offense to their offense. Yours may be worse or better but that makes no difference in the end. What you get is what YOU get.”  You may have a similar path, but it isn’t the exactly the same. We can’t presume to know what someone is thinking or doing based on what we think.

And sometimes, just sometimes obligations have to come first before we are able to do something we want to. Does that make sense? You have to do what is needed before what is wanted. Listening. Soon. Have a great night. m.