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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

i woke with this fear

life's sometimes uncanny in the sense that i can walk past a shop, hear a song that best expresses me for the day and find comfort in that song. some staff guy in the mph cd section today kept playing the song below, so either he was feeling the same or he was really into emo music.

had another dream today from my past. it got me thinking why some things are such a wreck whenever i look back. unfinished endings that unsettle me. sure, i don't think about it as much as i used to, but i'm only human and when i do, i can't just not feel anything about what has happened and be as laconic as the other party.

on top of it, i have the future to think about. people are so tricky. you can never be too sure about the people you invest in. a new set of friends have arrived lately, so many of them...but i don't know if i can handle it -- allow myself to be vulnerable again, start a friendship (of substance) with some of them and put my life on the line again, knowing what statistics say.

but if i don't, i'll never allow them a chance to cultivate a real friendship with me (and vice versa), and obviously i don't want that -- to be a 'stepford friend' (blame the TV for showing stepford wives again haha).

do i still believe that god can "reconcile the irreconcilable", as beth moore said in the devotional i read yesterday? that's the only thing that's kept me going, that he will, someday, and not when i'm 80 or after we're all dead and gone to heaven.

but do i still believe it enough to not let it mar my future friendships?

Leave Out All The Rest
by LINKIN PARK

I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared

After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here

So if you're asking me
I want you to know

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made

I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you

So if you're asking me
I want you to know

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
I can't be who you are