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http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything
Cultural dismissal and culling vs. surrender.
Cultural dismissal and culling vs. surrender.
Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That's the moment you realize you're separated from so much. That's your moment of understanding that you'll miss most of the music and the dancing and the art and the books and the films that there have ever been and ever will be, and right now, there's something being performed somewhere in the world that you're not seeing that you would love.
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Date: 2011-04-18 04:28 pm (UTC)(Please, please forgive me for tying this back to Glee when you wrote something that *didn't* mention it.) That's why Kurt's "A House is Not A Home" makes me melancholy every damn time I listen to it - but I listen to it anyway. Not because the song itself is sad. Because I see in this portrayal of a quirky sensitive young person with a clear emotion-filled voice and dreams as big in the sky... well, I'm sure I don't have to even finish the sentence to say that I see myself.
My life is great. All the same...
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