Iron & Wine – "Passing Afternoon" (2004)
2009/12/06
There is only so much time in each day. There are only so many days we have to live.
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days.
To what end? I believe it is up to us to make our own purpose in life. Our own goals, hopes, and dreams should be the reasons we keep on with the keeping on. It is not enough to just survive.
I've been pondering it more and more lately because I am displeased with my current daily occupation. I am not truly pursuing my purpose to the extent that I wish to. I am pursuing the wealth of others far removed from me. People who only consider me nothing more than a figure on their ledger, a number, a head count, are my beneficiaries more and more, and my benefactors less and less. I wish to make a more perfect world for myself and those around me, yet I am constrained and squeezed. I fulfill goals that have little interest for me. I am but a tool in someone else's toolbox, being used only to be replaced once worn down. I need to break free.
Perhaps it is the cold of winter, the shortend days, or the reality of another year passed that leaves me feeling a bit melancholy today. I wish for a change. I do not wish to simply live my life as a passive member of the herd, accepting everything thrown at me just because it is easier. I wish to make something of myself, for myself. I wish to enjoy more of the moments of my days ahead, instead of only glimpses of each day. I do not wish to let my days simply drift away, or worse, to wish them away.
Wish me luck! I wish you luck too!
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I never really got into Iron and Wine… but I may have to get some of there stuff now!
The "Our Endless Numbered Days" album is particularly good. I would also suggest Iron & Wine's cover of The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights", which was featured on the Garden State soundtrack. If that doesn't suck you into Iron & Wine, then I don't know what will! Oh and you have to see Garden State if you haven't.