May 27, 2005
an album that's always there for me
i put on Savage Garden's "Affirmation" yesterday without giving it much thought and as the familiar lyrics poured out my brain was flooded with memories of other times in my life when i have listened to this cd. it seems to be one that i turn to, without intending to, at moments in my life that are filled with emotional turbulence and change. i vividly remember sitting in a very orange room in the youth hostel in Vienna copying down the lyrics to one of the songs ("affirmation" in fact) for my friend in South Africa. He was going through some problematic soul-searching, and i was missing terribly the people i met when i was down there. add to that general tiredness/giddyness from traveling around europe and you get the picture of what was going through my head.
i listened to the cd a couple of times freshman year. so i suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that i'm listening to it again now... a lot of the same emotions for ironically different reasons. and my always observant mother came in and said "wow, that's an old album, haven't heard it in a while" and proceeded to ask me how i was holding up. my mother is good.
i've decided i don't want to leave this purple room (just painted a bedroom at the house and this makes my father really happy. however, i can tell now that the color i chose isn't quite as perfect as i thought. unless you shine the right light on it. so now i'm sipping my coffee and trying to decide what to do...
Posted by lara at May 27, 2005 11:59 AM
