Music and love

'If music be the food of love, play on.' But what is a person to do when a song reminds them of sad times, of heartache, and of having their heart broken? Music may be the food love, and it may indeed excite the heart towards love, but does it not also cause melancholy when a person has been touched by sadness? Far be it from me to accuse the famous Bard of being insensitive to such feelings-Desdemona, Juliet, and Cordelia are a testimony of his high sensitivity, but I do think that something can be said of the aforementioned line from Twelfth Night, with regard to the notion of music also being the food of melancholy. Even Romeo's melancholy seems to be not melancholic-he seems rather tired and bored, as he cycles through his confused oxymorons: 'brawling love, loving hate [...] serious vanity, misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms'. He does, however, hit the nail on the head, as it were, with his words, that 'sad hours seem long.' This is of course the genious of Shakespeare-that he can almost demonstrate to be so out of touch with the feelings of the heart, and then demonstrate that he knows exactly how it works.

Time

They say that time is a great healer, but those that do utter such statements take no account of memory. It is memory which can almost stagnate that healing power which time posessses. We always hope that our painful memories will fade with the passage of time, that they will blur. Yet, it is our capacity to remember and recall that prevents that blurring from occuring quickly, so that our painful memories take longer to leave.

sharing

how comes sharing things is so important to us as humans? why is it that doing something by ourselves is worthless, and yet, there is 100% value added when we do that same action with another person? Such is the plight of man, and yet, the question which remains is, can there bee happiness for those destined to live life alone? Or is it only misery which lies ahead?

Some of the facts of life

It seems that life will seldom dissapoint, and, so we wonder-is everything we fight for worth it? The answer lies in those inspiring individuals who make us realise that there is, despite the bad, a lot of good in the world. Those who cause us to come to positive conclusions about the state of humanity. Those who act as rays of light in the current darkness which envelops nearly all of existence.

Save a life

I do believe I saved a woman's life today, as I clotheslined her when she was about to cross the road...the lived, but was clearly angry...very bizarre predicament! Such is the life of a walker within London.