I've fallen in love with this song.
For anyone who read my Logic, Love and Happiness post, and my two previous posts about the BNP, you may be familiar with some of the issues that are close to my heart at the moment. I'm feeling strong, passionate feelings to make more of a stand for the things I believe in, but I never knew how I could go about that, how easy or how hard it would be, what my role in the whole scheme of things would be (writing a blog seems pretty futile, but it's helping me straighten out in my head what exactly it is that I'm passionate about), or how truly dedicated to these things I really am. There's a lot I don't know about where I'm gonna let these feelings take me, but there are at least two things I am sure of, and this song addresses those things...
1. I feel like I'm on the losing side. I honestly don't know whether that's truly the case, or whether its a pessimistic example of confirmation bias where I'm only really noticing the negatives, but whether it's the rise of ultra right-wing political parties or a growing acceptance (and, in the recent case of acupuncture becoming available on the NHS, public subsidence) in society of magical, wishful thinking instead of earnest attempts to find real solutions to real problems, I feel like we're losing.
2. Despite the feeling that I'm losing, I never feel more alive than when I break out of the way of thinking that all our efforts are futile and make that important stand. I'm very new to this, but I feel I've grown a lot in character over the recent months and years and self-respect can be quite intoxicating! The growth can only continue.
I just feel that, as much as a cause might come up against it's defeats, if you sit back and do nothing because you feel like it's something you can't change, it's a recipe for unhappiness.
For anyone who read my Logic, Love and Happiness post, and my two previous posts about the BNP, you may be familiar with some of the issues that are close to my heart at the moment. I'm feeling strong, passionate feelings to make more of a stand for the things I believe in, but I never knew how I could go about that, how easy or how hard it would be, what my role in the whole scheme of things would be (writing a blog seems pretty futile, but it's helping me straighten out in my head what exactly it is that I'm passionate about), or how truly dedicated to these things I really am. There's a lot I don't know about where I'm gonna let these feelings take me, but there are at least two things I am sure of, and this song addresses those things...
1. I feel like I'm on the losing side. I honestly don't know whether that's truly the case, or whether its a pessimistic example of confirmation bias where I'm only really noticing the negatives, but whether it's the rise of ultra right-wing political parties or a growing acceptance (and, in the recent case of acupuncture becoming available on the NHS, public subsidence) in society of magical, wishful thinking instead of earnest attempts to find real solutions to real problems, I feel like we're losing.
2. Despite the feeling that I'm losing, I never feel more alive than when I break out of the way of thinking that all our efforts are futile and make that important stand. I'm very new to this, but I feel I've grown a lot in character over the recent months and years and self-respect can be quite intoxicating! The growth can only continue.
I just feel that, as much as a cause might come up against it's defeats, if you sit back and do nothing because you feel like it's something you can't change, it's a recipe for unhappiness.
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It's about that I got my act together again.
Great song and vid. Music matters. That was one of the things we had going for us back in my salad days. The music of the time - rousing us, inspiring us and driving us onward...