Saturday, 23 March 2013

I can't help falling in love with you

I've always loved this song, I can't help it probably. It's a song about inevitability. There's a difference between inevitability and inevetibalities. There's something reassuring about inevitability, it means you don't have to struggle so much. It just flows. There's something crushing about inevitabilities, it means you will have to struggle more. You get stuck in your tracks. Damn. We are born in to inevitability, inevitabilities are thrust upon us. Inevitability has grace, inevitabilities, if you're lucky, willl give you grace.  
  Inevitability is things like the sun coming out tomorrow (or not), the river flowing surely to the sea, just those things that happen or not. This song is about the inevitability of love. Some may find the inevitabilty of love to be a romantic notion. It's not really. Everybody loves somebody (or something) sometime and romance has fuck all to do with it. It's just part of life. As long as life exists love will exist in 1 or 2 or whatever ways of its various forms.
  As long as life exists death will exist in 1 or 2 or whatever ways of its various forms. In Slaughterhouse 5 after somebody or something dies the author writes so it goes. In this song when someone falls in love the singer sings darling so it goes.
  Some things are meant to be. Or not to be. Also, some things were meant to be.Or not to be. There's solace in that.



" 'Even now,' she thought, 'almost no one remembers Esteban and Pepita but myself. Camila alone remembers her Uncle Pio and her son; this woman, her mother. But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.' "

Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey



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