The Soundtrack Of Your Life Day 6
Times have been rough around here lately, hence my little absense from blogging. Hurricane Sandy hit my home town and my family to the point of destruction. Days just seemed to pass for 2 weeks or so. With no concept of time it just kept feeling like groundhog day, the morning of Tuesday October 30th was on repeat.
While wondering around like a zombie....the thoughts and feelings of "Did this just really happen?" "Am I dreaming?" "Why us?" "This could never happen here." all played through my families heads as well as many others around us. When we finally did get electric and TV back it was shocking to see the destruction, things like gas lines, telethon's and commercials about making donations to the "Hurricane Sandy Relief" just seemed unreal, something i still can't grasp.
This song came on during one of the many groundhog days. Listening to the lyrics just seemed to make the whole situation hit home, make sense in a way. This did happen, we lost everything, what do we do now? But i came to realize that we will rebuild, we will get through this, we have eachother and so much love and support from everyone around us.
At first it was hard to pull myself out of the sadness, but i realized it was ok to cry and to be sad but it was also ok to laugh and smile too. To us it was life changing, to others it was even worse. I keep thinking that i have to think of the glass half full, material things may have vanished and weakened our hope and faith but i still have my family and others do not.
Track 6 goes to Coldplay with "Fix You." A truely sad but powerful song.
"When the tears come streaming down your face, when you loose something you can't replace.
Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones and i will try to fix you."
With every passing day things get a little easier, life will keep rolling on and all of this will be a sad, tragic memory. We will never forget and we will always remember.
~Penny Lane
