The Capricious Ways of Humanity in Love

I'm a sucker for flings. Every week or so, I do this thing where I get completely enthralled in a new song or album. Like crazy obsessed. I'm sure y'all do it, too. That one silly piece of music is all I think about for a pretty solid amount of time, which varies in length per individual. It's what gets stuck in my head in the shower, what I play every hour or so at work, and what bids me goodnight and into my slumber at night. Ahhh, the unscathed fascination with a new song or album in the honeymoon stage. Nothing is sweeter.

And then, in a fit of being swept away by another, just a week later, I find a new beau. I leave my former love unfazed and have found a new metaphorical (as well as lyrical and musical) shoulder to rest my head on. I am thrown into the young love spiral from square one again--butterflies, a constant need for a listen, a desire to find the very core of the song--it's all oh-so romantic. It's typical for a girl like me. But then a thought crosses my mind... what happens to my old flame? Although the novelty, that initial allure of this old obsession has faded into oblivion, the song or albums remains, does it not? In my fluffy and naive mind, I like to think what happens is that the song runs right out of my brain into the unassuming mind of another almost instantaneously. As it enters their ears, they, too, become obsessed, thinking to themselves, "how did I ever survive without this song?" I don't know my musical protege, I just don't know. Mainly because I felt the exact same thing just last week and I'll feel the same about another probably tomorrow.

However, I am not discouraged by my musical flakiness. I eventually find the former album/song again a few months later, but the feeling it inspires at that time is nothing more than a pin prick compared to the knife wound it seemed to call for at its inception. Meh, oh well, right? Yeah.

"As human beings, we are meant to be flighty and capricious without offering a valid explanation. And for this quality, I suggest you ride out this current love for as long as want, drop it when you grow tired of it, cutting the ties cleanly and without regret, and then, find an even more alluring interest to keep the beautiful feeling of discovery and growth alive." -K.E. Larson

When you find something you truly love, it challenges your thoughts and dreams and passions. It changes your outlook on life and makes you do crazy things. I am talking about musical love and no other type of love AT ALL. Obviously.

But once again, none of this is really relevant. To get back to the current obsession.... It is an album with one song in particular.

The band: Porcelain Raft

The album: Strange Weekend

The song: Drifting In And Out

 

Featured in the Celeste and Jesse Forever trailer. AHHHH!