The Ties...

Yes. We are connected to everything, and everyone. Paraphrasing a line that I came across this morning:  "We think of ourselves as protagonists, but we are only passing thru someone else's story. Maybe uncounted numbers of someones."

Right. We think we are the main character of our narrative, but that's only in the monologue in our heads. We come from a long line of dead people. An unbroken chain of broken characters. Everyone we know, everyone we have met, everyone passing thru our lives help put the puzzle of us together.

Contrary to some of my New Age Spiritualistic friends, most likely, we didn't choose to be born, we didn't choose our parents or our families, we didn't choose where and when to be born and raised. We inherit so much: genes, emotions, traumas, history, experience.

It's hard to get your sea legs. Hard to keep your shit together. For some reason I thought of this Bruce Springsteen song this morning. It's seems like it's about a very human relationship, maybe a marriage that's gone wrong, but, really, I read it a bit more broadly, like any human relationship:

"You been hurt and you're all cried out you say

You walk down the street pushin' people outta your way

You packed your bags and all alone you want to ride

You don't want nothin', don't need no one by your side

You're walkin' tough baby, but you're walkin' blind

To the ties that bind

The ties that bind

Now you can't break the ties that bind

Cheap romance, it's all just a crutch

You don't want nothin' that anybody can touch

You're so afraid of being somebody's fool

Not walkin' tough baby, not walkin' cool

You walk cool, but darlin', can you walk the line

And face the ties that bind

The ties that bind

Now you can't break the ties that bind

I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darlin'

Than know the emptiness your heart must hide

Yes I would, darlin', yes I would, darlin'

Yes I would, baby

Oh, you sit and wonder just who's gonna stop the rain

Who'll ease the sadness, who's gonna quiet your pain

It's a long dark highway and a thin white line

Connecting baby, your heart to mine

We're runnin' now but darlin' we will stand in time

To face the ties that bind

The ties that bind

Now you can't break the ties that bind

You can't forsake the ties that bind

Oh..." - B. Springsteen