Love and Loneliness

It is unusual for me to write blogs this early, even in my own history of blogging, so seldom of my blogs are published in the morning. So in honor of this event... Good morning :).

I woke up with a wonderful song resonating in my head. Another artist who I have come to simply love and adore is the wonderful Misty Miller who recently debut her self-titled album in the UK about two weeks ago. She is a young sixteen year old song writer with fantastic skill. Her voice ranks among Adele, in particular, and is sublime.

I purchased her album and I'm thoroughly enjoying it! I recommend it! I love pretty much all of the tracks. The one I would like to talk and reflect about is called "Hope". Unfortunately, I cannot link a song to you in this blog for you to listen to, but I can direct you that song here on her Music Myspace which you can get to by clicking here.

The song "Hope" is a soulful and emphatic, yet reverencing and appreciating, and, of course, hopeful ode of a past love and the effects of it. To me, I find it a beautiful message to the audience of the human heart. What is striking most about this song, at this time to me, is laced and woven in the feeling and singing of the words in the second verse:

I loved it last night when you held me so tight
but then you let go and I was alone

Maybe you may have had the experience already, but if not I am without certainty that at one point in your life you may have to leave and let go of a relationship, idealized or not, and move on, and in the process of letting go I believe that the understanding and richness of the presence of love in your life will increase invaluably.

Maybe, even, in the process of letting go you would have to leave the other person alone. So at this point I would like to ask you to put into perspective the other person. This blog isn't dedicated to you. This blog is dedicated to the person who you left by leaving, this person who loved you and you left him or her. Whatever the reason of why you left, my point is that you did leave, and my aim is to consider how the other person may have felt in this certain scenario.

I'll try to put to words the feelings that I've received from Misty Miller's singing of the words in her second verse:

I loved it last night when you held me so tight
but then you let go and I was alone

Alone. My goodness, it's such a huge challenge to equivocate what my heart speaks to me in the hearing of the word. If someone you loved left you, and, in the result, has left you alone - coping is just...doesn't seem doable. The one who you loved was the person...you loved. That one special person who was your stronghold, your understanding, your comfort, your person deigned by God to apparently have not been the one for you, but on to who you have put in place of the one who you felt, to the best of your existence, God placed for you to love.

But Misty Miller, extraordinary in her talent, sings the following lines:

I loved it last night when you held me so tight
but then you let go and I was alone

...with dual emanating emotion - sadness and hopefulness. The sadness on which I've propounded about, and the hopefulness which seems to take into consideration a reverence of the event AND a calmness perpetuated by a solace. When I hear her sing those lines, I don't get awfully sad, even though the words read alone seem so awful. Instead, in hearing her singing of those lines, I feel partially sad, and I feel, in all calmness, okay. It's like she's able to sing the feeling of being okay, while even though the most devastating thing has happened.

The point is that it's hard to feel "okay" when you're left alone. That is what's so revolutionary about what I've come to gain from the song.

Sincerely,
Aaron