If you are a self-reflector like me…you may want to skip this song. I mean it’s an incredible song but dear me does it hit HARD. The movie though, you can’t skip that…so I guess just get ready?
I couldn’t listen to this song more than twice in a row without needing a break. Pugh’s voice is…and I don’t know how to explain what I just felt, other than her voice is all of us? Like we’ve all been in this much pain before. When I hear it therefore…I get very emotional.
That’s a great testament to the quality of a song though, right? It’s job is to create emotion through sound. This one does it’s job with efficiency. It has me very deep in my feels whenever I hear it.
The song and the movie really make me think about how little we as a society actively let emotions out of ourselves. It reminds me of my own mental health journey and really drives home the fact that we need to be more patient with one-another. Sometimes getting out of bed is the mountain we summit. Sometimes eating. Sometimes taking a shower. The thing this song reminds me of though, is that sometimes we’re weak. Sometimes we’re fragile. Sometimes our self-talk is SHIT.
There are also times where we can’t get out of our own head. We can’t stop thinking about that person. That thing we did. How everything bad is going to happen because of something we did or said. It’s so easy to catastrophize things, and then it spirals.
Here’s what I think though. Muscle is broken down before it becomes stronger right? Iron sharpens iron, right? (Had no idea that was from a Bible verse. Huh. Proverbs 27:17. ”As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”)
Now, this is not to say in this way you’re sharpening yourself in some way by being more and more depressed.
I think it’s important to talk about pain and the fact that we all carry it around with us. Why do we pretend we don’t have it? I wrote about this back in February of 2020 before COVID hit. We are all living a collectively shared experience. Same pains. It connects us. Humanity.
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Food for thought. Enjoy Pugh’s beautifully painful performance. Thanks for reading! Let me know what you think of the song!
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