So, nowadays, I sit at work for hours on end with international radio stations feeding the latest 'hot n' happening' music into my ears. Punching letters into a keyboard makes my brain go into a tailspin. So yeah, my mind took off on this crazy tangent the other day.
I leave work to go see a couple of friends, maybe catch a movie. It's insane how when you feel you're all alone in the world, you can pick out a quote from a book, or simply a random string of lyrics from a song made light years back, and still connect it to a fragment of your life.
I know this seems dumb. I mean, hello, why do people read and listen to music if it didn't have something to do with their own personal lives. It is part of the human ethos, the collective unconsciousness, or what-have-you, right?
But maybe, just maybe..., and again I go into a supposed 'theory' proclaimed by the very wise guy who is the character that Ethan Hawke plays in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. According to him, what it all boils down to is that we are all fragments of each other. Confused yet? Let me explain. There were only a few human beings in the world in the very beginning. From what we're force-fed to understand, there was one, and then eventually, one more dropped from the sky by divine force.
And then began the process of duplication. Has this physical duplication lead to duplication of minds too? There are too many people milling around us for anyone's good right now. What if we have all become fragments of each other...sub-particles.
And now I don’t feel so alone anymore. Yeah, agreed, I still don’t wanna be just another face in the crowd. But then, we were meant to live for so much more, we lost ourselves. Somewhere we live inside. ..all of us. We’re not alone; we’re just reflected in each other.
Maybe redemption does have stories to tell, after all.
