I don't know your face, no more
Or feel the touch, that I adore
I don't know your face, no more
It's just the place, I'm looking for
We might as well be strangers, in another town
We might as well be living, in a different world
We might as well
I don't know your thoughts these days
We're strangers in, an empty space
I don't understand your heart
It's easier, to be apart
We might as well be strangers in another town
We might as well be living in another time
We might as well
For all I know of you now
Keane: We Might As Well Be Strangers
Album: Hopes and Fears
i've had quite a few moments where i had things to blog or work through. but the absence of quick, timely, easy access to a computer...... na. not really. just laziness, kept me from updating.
and doesn't a stubborn laziness keep us from doing most things that should be done?
this song seems to be about a relationship between two people that have grown apart. for me, right now, it symbolizes and describes how i feel about a few people (friends and family) currently. it's funny how people change over the years. and how quickly they can become someone you don't know. part of me though wonders if it wasn't them at all, but me that changed. or was somewhat blinded by the desire to see them as "perfect." i don't know why, but i'm always deeply wounded in watching my friends experience the part of their humanity that is ugly. i'm tempted to run away, even when that is exactly what i try and tell them not to do. ya, mine is not the same ugliness as theirs, but who am i to think mine is somehow better or less ugly? my ugliness is the same. that is the truth.
the challenge for me is to love no matter what. and not run away. not avoid. not divert. just slowly and surely walk right through the ugliness. even if they seem like strangers, and not the people i knew before... my challenge is to stay. my challenge is to see people in their humanity. all the time. not just when their making the decisions i think they should. maybe even the decisions that i know are right. my challenge is to rely on Him. and trust. fully.
my weakness is...
pride
ignorance
stubbornness
cowardness
delusion
drama
i am the stranger. my challenge is to see me. as i really am. not as i'd like to see myself.
the stranger is me. the Truth is calling me. and i run away.
