I really really enjoy living. I don’t say this to say I like my life, (I don’t say it to say I don’t either) but I like life. Life in itself. It’s such a pretty concept. I deeply and thoroughly enjoy life in a way that is not very easy for me to explain
but I’ll try
There aren’t many people I see that enjoy life in the way I do. Being able to connect dots that appear to be on two separate pages and see things for what they don’t seem to be but what they may be and probably are is not a gift many people possess and I recognize that.
I was reading an article my friend wrote about the ability to always begin again, like to start afresh, and it was so soothing to see that that article was inspired by apple music cancelling her subscription and her having to re-download her songs and re-curate her playlists. it was going to be tasking yes, but it was something that could most certainly be done with time.
It’s also the same way songwriters and lyricists are able to compose rhymes and melodies from the most random things. I was watching SZA’s Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe and she spoke about how the songs that became hits on the SOS album were random songs that were made while trying to make other songs. Songs that she’d put the least effort into. They were scratches and pallet cleansers, that’s what she called them. And it’s so funny because it goes to kind of prove what people always say that when you stop applying excessive pressure on something, you’ll get it.
On the flip side, there’s also people who put a lot of time and effort into their art and endeavours and projects and reap immense benefits. They try various methods, do research, spend sleepless nights and invest time and money in whatever they’re trying to put together and it works out for crazily for them.
And there are people who do the both or one of the two and don’t see results.
So little things like this are what make me enjoy life. That’s probably why I like music. Music is kaleidoscopic and unitary at the same time.
s/o to Prof Chigbo (again) for teaching me this word because I die if I stop saying “kaleidoscopic”😭
Whoever said it’s a universal language knew exactly what they were talking about. I love how music and literature and history intertwine. It’s really all the same thing, storytelling.
Yes, it’s still storytelling when Rema says those things that nobody can make out and end up as ellipses on Spotify lyrics. Why? Because sometimes in your life, you’ll be in a situation and you’d just be like “HUH???” Like you can see what’s happening but then “HUH?!!??!!!??”
That’s the ellipses in your life. You know you’re living something but you can’t really say what you’re living.
I really just love life. The complexity of it. It’s dynamics. It’s like a lot of colours on several pages in one huge book. I really hate when people try to paint it as black and white or label things as simply good and bad because things aren’t so straight forward.
Life is art and art is not math or physics so the variables aren’t fixed. It is really whatever you make it to be and everyone should be able to enjoy it in the anyway they seem fit.
Shout out to God for real, He was DEEP in His bag when He came up with this one i can’t lie!
Till next time.
Soooooooooo
Last week I listened to a lot of old rema. I honestly don’t know why, I think I was just missing that vibe and I ended up listening to the Rema Compliation eveyday. I wish they were uploaded as the separate EPs though. I don’t even remember the names of those EPs and it makes me sad. But oh well.
I prayed a lot more this week. Mostly in my spirit. I don’t know what it is about Spirit Chant and Manarantha but those songs just bring me so much peace. I’m also kind of dependent on songs to help me pray. I don’t know if that’s a bad or good think but I pray better when I listen to songs that speak to me.
Skepta also dropped this insane song called Jangrova. Jangrova is a game that a lot of Nigerian millennials and Gen Z’s played as children and it was so fun to hear him sample the little jingle to the game in his song. I loved it. Listen to it😡.
My last 1st semester exams start tomorrow. Wish me luck😘
love the way you love and live life
Music reccs>>