Back 2 Good

Back 2 Good - Matchbox 20


Lyrics | Matchbox 20 lyrics - Back 2 Good lyrics

When this song is played, I picture myself in a dimly lit coffee house with a live band on stage.
There are little round wooden tables with plain white sheets that look almost orange under the lighting. There are not many people there, just some minding their own business and having quiet unnecessary conversations.
I'd sit alone at a corner table, drinking up the atmosphere and drown myself in the music. At the side of my table, there is a couple of old lovers. The woman was dressed in a green sequined dress and wore heavy makeup, as if trying to erase the years under thick layers of chalk. The man was unassuming, just looking at the band onstage as if not really hearing anything and seeing right through the walls. Maybe the couple is just doing a routine night out, just as they did for the past 30 years. Thinking back about the events that move them to this moment, they are lost in the thousands of possibilities that they could experience. There are no new memories, just a great desire to reminisce and re-live the old times.
Silent.
All the what-ifs and whys are taking a toll on the way people see the world. All the questions that constantly assail our confidence in others would eventually erode it bit by bit until the hard truths stare out at you.
However, sometimes the questions arise from our own insecurity and the need to belong and accepted. Looking through this perspective, sometimes we see and feel things that are really not there at all. We can never know what the other is feeling and thinking: so to contemplate on these things would only bring ruin.
People sometimes don't understand why people don't or won't understand them. For me, what is there to understand? Can't we live with our differences and search for a way to go round them? People are always worked up about being the victim, about always being the one so wronged. Dramatize life, so that we can rationalize our failures and shortcomings.
Some things are better left unsaid. Some things are best left unsaid. Let it go.
If we don't, we will never get it back to good. No one is backing down, so everyone is going nowhere. In the end we are just left with memories of possibilities, lonely in our decision to always be right regardless of the consequences.
Well, it is really important, you know... to be right.

Biar jelas

Sangat setuju dengan artikel ini.
Hahaha, mmg best kata-kata ustaz, "Selamat menduda kerana-Nya"
kalau perempuan, takkan nak kata "Selamat menjanda kerana-Nya"?
Memang susah untuk jadi ganjil. Menjadi berlawanan daripada arus bukanlah sesuatu yang fitrah, kita kena paksakannya.
Sebenarnya yang setuju sangat tu bukan apa, cuma sangat tertarik pada approach ustaz. Memang perlu beri isyarat yang jelas, tiada kiasan-kiasan apabila melibatkan soal hati. Kalau dah sampai takat dia meluahkan perasaannya, janganlah bersikap zalim dengan alasan mahu "menjaga hati" lalu memberi isyarat-isyarat yang boleh ditafsir seribu makna. Nak ke taknak? Sebab dia akan tunggu kau. Kalau taknak, cakap dengan jelas. Boleh move on, kau pun mungkin bukanlah yang paling baik untuk dia.
Tentang hal ber'couple' sebelum kahwin, I'm 50-50. Still thinking about it. Bagus juga kalau kenal, tapi kalau sampai "kenal" melampaui batas, pastilah tidak setuju. Tengok dari perspektif mana pun, pakai logik mana pun: perempuan juga yang rugi. Ingat tu.

Pixeled view

Change is necessary for several reasons, and you completely understand that. After all, change is second nature to you -- the more sudden the better. Still, even you occasionally have a problem adapting to something startling that's handed down from on high -- especially if it happens without your input. Fortunately, everything that's going on now was more or less personally orchestrated by you. Count your blessings and resolve to be patient if it's not always this way.

Hey, look at my horoscope today.
I like to read horoscopes, not because I totally believe what it says and follow it to the tee but I like the sayings. For me, it's like a personal quote just for me.
For this one, it is good advice to count your blessings and be patient when things are changing toward the direction that you rather it not be. I really believe that everything will happen as it should be.
No injustice if you look at the big picture. Don't zoom in to a pixel and say that the whole picture is just a black dot. That way, you can't see the beautiful image life is trying to show you. The life we lead now have no map, so we don't know where we'll end up in the future. You can't even tell me for sure what will transpire 2 minutes ahead of time, so don't pass judgment on things that haven't fully unraveled yet.
Sometimes things are not what they seem; you just got to have faith ;)