Do you ever think about soulmates?
Is a real soulmate the twister that spins into your life, tears through every part to disappear just as quickly, and leaves nothing the same? Are they fire, passion, sensuality incarnate, invigorating- but in the back of your mind you wonder how long it will take to burn out? Or are they the one that stays, matched in every taste, through the difficult moments no matter how many times they want to call it quits for good?
We see couples everywhere that are deemed soulmates in music, literature, television and film. We watched the romance of Carrie and Big play out across both the small and silver screen, starting and stopping about as many times as she bought shoes, but we all breathed a sigh of relief when they finally tied the knot. "There. They are meant for each other. They lost and found each other so many times, they just have to be soulmates."
Heathcliff and Cathy, immortalized in the pages of Wuthering Heights, were all passion, all fire. They were selfish, cutting, horrid people; but we all felt ourselves rooting for them because we thought they were destined for each other. They loved each other so much, wonderfully and terribly, even up to death, leaving the carnage in their wake; but you still felt happy in the final pages of their reunion, that they could be together one last time. They must be soulmates.
And then, Jane. The lover who waited. Little Jane Eyre, tied with invisible string to Rochester's breast, unable to deny the Herculean pull they had on each other; suffering through his pretend devotion to the beautiful Blanche, the felicity of their engagement only to discover him already married to a madwoman, her own self-exile far from him, and the realization that the man she had once known was now a broken shell of himself that needed her a hundred times more than before. She waited, he waited for so long and had to fight so hard for each other. It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, easy. Are they not soulmates? So different, yet crafted for each other in some inexplicable way?
Everyone has their own opinion of a soulmate, but there has to be some truth some permeating the confusion, angst and pleasure wrapped up in the emotional landmine that is the world of love. So many people mistake lust for love and love for lust, it's possible that we have lost the ability to realize what we have until it's ripped from our fingers. Physical attraction is such an integral part of the pull we feel towards other people, has it become the only thing that makes up our minds of who we love?
Of how we love?
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Giving Up and It's Repercussions.
Hey Blog-o-sphere.
Don't you hate it when people just give up?
Give up on work, marriage, diets, happiness, their dreams; hell, even finishing dinner on time? I bet there's many of you out there that do. I know I do. I know there will probably be zero people reading this, but hey, bear with me as I bitch and moan with the best of them.
What get's under my skin the most is when people just give up on a friendship- when two people, who have been through a lot together- school, sickness, family, heartbreak, and all the good stuff too, when they hit a roadblock, one of them just gives up. It's a hurdle that anyone could get over wit just a little effort. But they just stop fighting. They dismiss you. Ignore you. Replace you. And the other is left with broken down walls and the simple question, "Why?".
I'd like to be able to answer that question. Dear Lord, would I love to be able to answer it, but I can't. No one can. We can justify it, "It was time.",, "We've grown apart.", "They aren't worth the trouble."; or we can blame ourselves, "I was too needy.", "I'm not good enough.", "Did I really support them as much as I could?"; or you can blame them, "They're emotionally stunted.", "They're a lazy bum.", or "They couldn't take how much I challenged them".
We can scream these "answers" to ourselves until our faces turn blue, but it isn't going to matter, because I'll bet most of us never truly find out. And that is completely unacceptable, but that's life. And it happens to everyone. New acquaintances, someone you've known since you were four, or someone you've been best friends with for 5 years. No matter who gives up, it still hurts like hell.
But, hey, before I spiral into a depressing oblivion here and scare the few people who may be reading this away; personally, I don't think these have to be lost causes.
Maybe, in some cases, we'd be better off without the jerks in our lives, but if we look hard, way down deep, and we still think we're better off with them around, then we fight twice as hard!
Watch. Wait. Take chances. Fight for them. Fight for you. Don't give up. And maybe (maybe?) we'll get our answers.
Good night my lovelies, and good luck.
Katie
Don't you hate it when people just give up?
Give up on work, marriage, diets, happiness, their dreams; hell, even finishing dinner on time? I bet there's many of you out there that do. I know I do. I know there will probably be zero people reading this, but hey, bear with me as I bitch and moan with the best of them.
What get's under my skin the most is when people just give up on a friendship- when two people, who have been through a lot together- school, sickness, family, heartbreak, and all the good stuff too, when they hit a roadblock, one of them just gives up. It's a hurdle that anyone could get over wit just a little effort. But they just stop fighting. They dismiss you. Ignore you. Replace you. And the other is left with broken down walls and the simple question, "Why?".
I'd like to be able to answer that question. Dear Lord, would I love to be able to answer it, but I can't. No one can. We can justify it, "It was time.",, "We've grown apart.", "They aren't worth the trouble."; or we can blame ourselves, "I was too needy.", "I'm not good enough.", "Did I really support them as much as I could?"; or you can blame them, "They're emotionally stunted.", "They're a lazy bum.", or "They couldn't take how much I challenged them".
We can scream these "answers" to ourselves until our faces turn blue, but it isn't going to matter, because I'll bet most of us never truly find out. And that is completely unacceptable, but that's life. And it happens to everyone. New acquaintances, someone you've known since you were four, or someone you've been best friends with for 5 years. No matter who gives up, it still hurts like hell.
But, hey, before I spiral into a depressing oblivion here and scare the few people who may be reading this away; personally, I don't think these have to be lost causes.
Maybe, in some cases, we'd be better off without the jerks in our lives, but if we look hard, way down deep, and we still think we're better off with them around, then we fight twice as hard!
Watch. Wait. Take chances. Fight for them. Fight for you. Don't give up. And maybe (maybe?) we'll get our answers.
Good night my lovelies, and good luck.
Katie
Sunday, June 13, 2010
La Sirène Du Ciel
This is my original composition, for which my page is named.
La Sirène Du Ciel
Willow-weighted tones to float
On nothing but a wisp,
The painful, yearning melodies
To well-clad, sea-worn soldiers,
Not far away from journey's end.
"Are you the love I never was to own,
But ere to cling inside my breast?
The one I search for,
From the sea's sheer cliffs
In vain, from morning's dim,
'Til twilight's burning embers
Put out their present light?
Return to me! O fickle, radiant lover,
To melt crystal seclusion in the
Smolder of our agèd flame!"
With sultry sweet she sang the
Sailors to a gentle trance,
And in their eager desperation,
Fell quickly to the salty sea.
Alone she mourned,
Cloaked in ceaseless solitude,
Within the all but soundless world-
Silent,
Save the crashing of the waves and
Her own, exquisite, silver voice.
La Sirène Du Ciel
Willow-weighted tones to float
On nothing but a wisp,
The painful, yearning melodies
To well-clad, sea-worn soldiers,
Not far away from journey's end.
"Are you the love I never was to own,
But ere to cling inside my breast?
The one I search for,
From the sea's sheer cliffs
In vain, from morning's dim,
'Til twilight's burning embers
Put out their present light?
Return to me! O fickle, radiant lover,
To melt crystal seclusion in the
Smolder of our agèd flame!"
With sultry sweet she sang the
Sailors to a gentle trance,
And in their eager desperation,
Fell quickly to the salty sea.
Alone she mourned,
Cloaked in ceaseless solitude,
Within the all but soundless world-
Silent,
Save the crashing of the waves and
Her own, exquisite, silver voice.
Hello blogging world!
This is my first dip into the world of the blog, and I'm quite excited! I'm honestly not exactly sure how this blog is going to turn out. From early inclinations, I expect it to be part pitch-a-bitch, part tell-all, part review, part writing platform, part critique on culture, and wholly enjoyable! A little bit about me- I am a musician, getting a degree in Music Therapy, a poet, and a hopeless romantic. The title of my blog, La Sirene Du Ciel, is French for "The Siren of the Sky". It came from one of my poetic compositions, which I will post, and ended up being my blog title solely by the fact that it was the first thing that popped into my imagination! This is a short post, but hopefully I will come up with something more worthwhile to say in the future! I look forward to it!
-Katie
This is my first dip into the world of the blog, and I'm quite excited! I'm honestly not exactly sure how this blog is going to turn out. From early inclinations, I expect it to be part pitch-a-bitch, part tell-all, part review, part writing platform, part critique on culture, and wholly enjoyable! A little bit about me- I am a musician, getting a degree in Music Therapy, a poet, and a hopeless romantic. The title of my blog, La Sirene Du Ciel, is French for "The Siren of the Sky". It came from one of my poetic compositions, which I will post, and ended up being my blog title solely by the fact that it was the first thing that popped into my imagination! This is a short post, but hopefully I will come up with something more worthwhile to say in the future! I look forward to it!
-Katie
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