Stress is life
Sep. 16th, 2005 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readingredheadStart looking at a planet, watching entropy and pain
And maybe start to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane
I've been thinking about the meaning of resistance, of a hope beyond my own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent begin to look like home
I've been thinking about everyone
Everyone, you look so empty
But when I look at the stars I see someone else
When I look at the stars I feel like myself
So I just got Switchfoot's new CD and it's interesting because a lot of the songs on there that I've heard so far aren't like what their earlier stuff was like at all. A lot of it is about what's wrong in this world. But I think that it fits. The stuff above is from a song called "Stars," and as I listened to it I realized how true it could be. It just meant something to me. I've always seen the stars as a way of escape. I'm the one who looks up every night and makes a wish on the heavens, a part of me thinking that those wishes all go up to a God who is loving and will someday give me what I ask for, if it's what I need. And it's so true -- none of this is sane. I don't care what Mr. Osumi says about how all teenagers think they're crazy, or that they're going through things that no one else has to. I think that our generation is living in a world that is crazier than the world of our parents was. And I think that, to some extent, they can't really understand.
In a world like this one, if there isn't something more than just life, then why live? I am so thankful that I know of something above this life; I know that I would be lost without my faith. Somtimes it's hard...but all of the things I've lived through...somehow right now, they're reminding me that it's okay to have hard times, because God will get me through them.
And maybe start to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane
I've been thinking about the meaning of resistance, of a hope beyond my own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent begin to look like home
I've been thinking about everyone
Everyone, you look so empty
But when I look at the stars I see someone else
When I look at the stars I feel like myself
So I just got Switchfoot's new CD and it's interesting because a lot of the songs on there that I've heard so far aren't like what their earlier stuff was like at all. A lot of it is about what's wrong in this world. But I think that it fits. The stuff above is from a song called "Stars," and as I listened to it I realized how true it could be. It just meant something to me. I've always seen the stars as a way of escape. I'm the one who looks up every night and makes a wish on the heavens, a part of me thinking that those wishes all go up to a God who is loving and will someday give me what I ask for, if it's what I need. And it's so true -- none of this is sane. I don't care what Mr. Osumi says about how all teenagers think they're crazy, or that they're going through things that no one else has to. I think that our generation is living in a world that is crazier than the world of our parents was. And I think that, to some extent, they can't really understand.
In a world like this one, if there isn't something more than just life, then why live? I am so thankful that I know of something above this life; I know that I would be lost without my faith. Somtimes it's hard...but all of the things I've lived through...somehow right now, they're reminding me that it's okay to have hard times, because God will get me through them.
