In case you were wondering, Billboard's Hot 100 (while interesting [try looking up what was #1 the week you were born. Trippy{which apparently isn't a word in my computer's dictionary}] and comprehensive) is not the true sign of whether or not a song has "made it". No, that distinction actually goes to my blog. That's right- you know it's a good song if I've woken up with it stuck in my head :)
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Today's song was really just one line from Part of Me which played over and over in my mind this morning:
You're never gonna break my soul, this is the part of me
that you're never gonna ever take away from me.
I feel like everyone has so much baggage. Call it what you will: layers, or different hats that we wear, or masks, or whatever. I'm going to call it baggage. There are social norms that we conform to, relationships which we mold ourselves in to, defense mechanisms, insecurities, habits. The list goes on and on for reasons why anyone would carry around baggage, and it's as individual as the baggage itself.
What if we could get rid of it? What if we could let go, let the layers simply fall off? Would that be a good thing? I don't know. I've never done it. I like to think that it would be glorious. To see and be seen for exactly who and what you are. So often, I feel like the people that I "know" aren't actually people. They are the layers that I've grown accustomed to. The part of the person that Katy sings about, that is who I want to get to know.
I know that there is some pretty deep (ie confusing) stuff out there about what the ego is, how we define ourselves and such, but I feel like we all have at least a sense of what we are, deep inside. It's easier for me to reflect myself more clearly when I blog, so I hope you get to hear a more baggage-less me in my posts. Someday, hopefully I'll get better at being able to open up in person and share a part of me.
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