Inside the White Picket Fence

Lately I feel like I've really dropped the ball. With everything. I'm struggling with a whole set of emotions ranging from a wide variety of issues. I was questioning life. In the last two months I've lost my shit quite a few times. Have you ever reached a moment of clarity during your darkest moments? Why do we always seem to reach all these strange epiphanies when we're confused? Music is my escape as usual, but this time these songs really spoke to me.

" A city of justice, city of love peace for everyone of us....Next door to happiness is sadness"

How true is this? Lately the highs and lows of my life are like running back and forth between happiness and sadness. This has been too much to bear because I don't require much, I live a very simple life, anything that complicates things becomes overwhelming for me. Simple things like grocery shopping has been stressing me because half the time I don't know what I should cook anymore. I'm going through a hormonal imbalance that left me with severe cystic acne and no choice but to try birth control. I feel defeated as I have been against drugs and synthetic chemicals in my body for so long. I think of all the causes of people needing birth control aside from pregnancy and it's all environment related. A topic near and dear to my experiences, but let's not even open that jar.

I want Utopia...what else is new? 

[Verse]

When I was very young

Nothing really mattered to me

But making myself happy

I was the only one

Now that I am grown

Everything's changed

I'll never be the same

Because of you

Nothing really matters

Love is all we need

Everything I give you

All comes back to me

Looking at my life

It's very clear to me

I lived so selfishly

I was the only one

I realize

That nobody wins

Something is ending

And something begins

Nothing takes the past away

Like the future

Nothing makes the darkness go

Like the light

[Outro]

You're shelter from the storm

Give me comfort in your arms

We choose our life. Women have the power, and sometimes we lose that control when we follow our hearts and let the fire inside consume us. Love is so multifaceted. Love is an angry turbulent monster. I crave the tenderness of it all, and I fear the loss of control I experience when I'm buried by it. I miss the carefree days when I had complete control over my future and I had options. Freedom to just do whatever I want with nobody to care for and anybody to pass the time. Society and marriage does this to you, the dreams of the big beautiful house, and the white picket fence and happy smiling good babies, the sensation of his skin against yours, and the sweet smells of your home and the love inside.

When I love someone or something I love the fuck out of it, but when I'm cold I'm unbreakable. My moment of clarity came when I realized that what used to be my strength became my weakness. Love is all that really mattered to me. The past couple months being as stressful as it was caused me to question a lot of my core values. Growing up as a little girl I think a lot of the messages we receive surrounds "finding true love", nurturing people and things, caring more about others than ourselves, and Disney themed dreams. According to Disney it's: Follow your heart vs. using your brain. I'm guilty of singing "A dream is a wish your heart makes" with my girls too. I got to thinking the other day when my friend said that we would go so far in life if we didn't have so many feelings.