i miss writing here. i don't know what happened, but i guess summer vacation took over? I'm not working, so you'd think that would offer more time to keep up with my projects, but instead both of them have fallen to the wayside. I'm going to concentrate on getting back into the swing of things, because i really need the outlets that both projects were providing.
anyway, the new Danny Gokey single dropped today, and of course i am in love with it. it is called secondhand heart and it deals with the idea of having given part of your heart away already, but still having the ability to love someone with all that you have left, and letting that be enough.
this is actually a concept that i had been thinking about through the spring and the beginning of the summer...is it possible to love someone fully when you've given so much of yourself away to others? there are people in my past that will always own parts of my heart. does that mean that when i marry, i wont be able to love fully? i know this is borderline "i kissed dating goodbye" shit, and i don't especially want to get into that debate, but without looking at this on a religious level, i can still totally understand where people are coming from when they say that you give parts of yourself away. its bizarre, and it took me 31 years to get it.
but this song is about hope. its about the idea that you can still love fully, regardless of how much of your heart is staked out by others. Danny said in an interview before he officially unveiled the song to his anxious public, that he is in fact ready to let love in again and that he has a lot of love left to give. i guess that's one of the most amazing things about the human heart...the more love you give, the more room your heart has to let someone else in.
let me know what you think about Danny's new single.
i, for one, cannot wait for this new album to drop.
I got an email the other day that the 365 photo project was going to delete my account for inactivity. I didn't make a decision to stop, or even procrastinate. The existence of that project totally fell out of my head. I definitely can testify that too much free time is just as bad as none! I hope you have more luck with your projects than me.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the rest of it, I didn't know anything about "i kissed dating goodbye" and had to google it, but I'd already been wondering the same thing myself for years. There are people that I am always going to feel something for, even if they are no longer in my life. And trusting yourself and other people enough to give love again is really, crazy freaking hard. But in the end I'm with Danny on this one, even if he is a bit more country than my usual stuff. I think there's hope :)