The first time I heard this song I was surprised. I hadn't heard Cyndi sing this style before. I loved the vocal and the music and the words rang true. "When it's all played out, if the truth were known, you have to learn to live alone".
It isn't the most uplifting message, but there is some truth to it. It is hard to know and to be known. It's hard to be transparent. And even transparency and honesty can be met with disbelief. For me, it is those times when people simply don't believe 'I yam what I yam' that I feel the most alone.
When it comes down to it, we are people contained in flesh and bone, blood and brain and what we know about each other (or more accurately what we think we know) is interpreted through our own filters. And so we misunderstand, misjudge, misquote, and misinterpret until only a modicum of truth about another, if that, gets through.
And so we do our best with what we've got and we either try to understand, or we don't, or we convince ourselves that we understand completely and that our thoughts are Objective Truth itself. That, or we realize that we are creatures who can't decide between unity and harmony, sometimes wanting everyone to sing our song in our tune with our melody, and sometimes wishing for everyone that they could be who they are and sing their own song and lift up their voices with ours and everyone's in perfect harmony.
Suddenly, I crave Coke. | Learn To Live Alone | | Cyndi Lauper | | Cyndi Lauper | |
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 | well, I'm gonna quote Anne Morrow Lindbergh from "A gift from the Sea"
"we are all islands in a common sea"
a thread through that book is there are different seasons of life but through all it is important to learn to be alone; to embrace your basic state of alone-ness, find the core of who you are and then take that into your interactions with others.
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| oh bother, I've now quoted an author and admitted to reading.....yikes....just umm - you English types don't expect it to led to serious discourse or scrabble........or a discussion on the validity of the slippery slope theory..
can't believe I"m saying this but
I miss school.... |
 | That sounds like a great book. It's been a long time since I've read a great book (of fiction, at least).
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 | "we realize that we are creatures who can't decide between unity and harmony, sometimes wanting everyone to sing our song in our tune with our melody, and sometimes wishing for everyone that they could be who they are and sing their own song and lift up their voices with ours and everyone's in perfect harmony."
Speaking from a musical point of view, the problem with that statement is that one cannot have pure harmony without having pure unity, so it isn't really an issue of deciding between the two...and in reality, when everyone is busy just singing their own songs, what you end up with is just discordant noise that ceases to be music at all...unless of course, you are tone deaf and don't really care...in which case, you still haven't created music, you have only made yourself blissfully unaware of that fact...but, of course, there can be a certain amount of pleasure in just making noise - at least for the person making the noise - not necessarily for the people forced to listen to the noise - this can be observed in any child/parent relationship...usually with the child receiving any pleasure benefits...unless of course the parent can sing opera and out noise them!
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| I think it is good for people to learn to be comfortable with who they are. But people were never meant to live alone. From the time we come into this world, to the time we are taken out of this world, we can only survive by depending on others. This is healthy. It is good. We were created to live in community with others. In fact, it is our interations and experiences with people, beginning with our families, then later friends, and even casual aquaintances, that shape us and make us into who we are, and who we will become.
Perhaps the real truth is that, when at all possible, you have to learn to make better choices concerning who you have to learn to live with...And that kind of wisdom is usually only learned through much heartbreak. |
| I still think we are all basically alone when it comes down to it - but with the need to reach out and connect with other people in their aloneness. To be alone is not the same thing as to be lonely or isolated or living without disconnection to other people. I'm forgetting the exact quote but the description of friendships or relationships as "two solitudes that reach out and touch each other" spoke to me on some level. |
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