Fink.

I've been watching Lie To Me on Netflix.  A show about the science of reading facial expressions, body language, manipulators, macroexpressions and such.  I find it immensely fascinating.  Anywho, they played a song and it totally sparked something in me.  So I searched it.  I have officially discovered Fink.  I have found my new obsession.



Solitude - Serhatdemiroglu

When Fin sings, "The things that keep me alive, keep me alone."  I can relate.  It burned something in me, maybe that bit of sadness that always lurks with me in my solitude.  I care so passionately about so many things, things that most others seem to find so insignificant.  The things that keep me alive.

It keeps me alone. 

Reading, learning, exploring... these things keep me alive.  Being compassionate, donating, volunteering, hiking mountainsides, signing petitions... these things keep me alive.  Recycling, turning the water off while I brush my teeth or soap the dishes, turning lights off when they aren't in use... these things keep me alive.  I am outcasted because of it.  These things keep me alone. 

My dog is my happiness.  I am a proud momma, and humans have shown me the cycle of disappointment and unreliability.  I value my relationship with my dog more than most of my human relationships.  Long walks, fetch, cuddling, teaching new tricks... these things keep me alive, &they keep me alone. 

I'd love to change that, I can't sacrifice my priorities for possibilities though.  I can't put my self worth on pause for the small possibility that someone might stick around.  So I keep the things that keep me alive, even if it keeps me alone.

Contemplation - Guillermo Carballa

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." -Albert Einstein.