random thoughts

a truly random rambling session from love to music

Hello all! So I am coming up to exams seasons, which is never great, which means I have spent all day thinking in law terms. When I finally finished studying I felt the need to do something creative to outlet some of my thoughts. I was torn between songwriting and writing on here and ultimately decided to write about it.

Today’s topic is relationships. I know I just wrote something on love but what can I say, I am a massive romantic at heart. I heard today that one of my best-friends/house-mates has been talking to a guy for the past couple weeks and that is has been going really well. As she told me, her face took on that nervous/embarrassed smile one gets whilst telling information they are really excited about. She really likes him. Obviously this news made me super happy. How can I not be that one of my closest friends might be entering a relationship soon. As the guy is someone we had actually met together, he actually came up and I said hi to him. They ended up leaving soon after for him to meet more of her friends.

I love love. I love people falling in love. I love people in love. I love it all. Seeing two people care about each other deeply is just so magical to me. I think that is why I find myself constantly listening to love songs and romance books. Funnily enough, I listen to sad love songs and sad romance books. While I love love, yearning holds a deeper place in my heart. To truly yearn for something is a powerful thing. I believe Hozier illustrates yearning beautifully.

On that note, let’s talk music. If there would be one thing to combat my love of romance, it would be music. Music has always been a massive part of my life. From dance lessons, synchronised swimming, playing instruments and to being the singer in my school band, it has always been constant in my life. Coming from a family who both loved music and were talented in it, it was almost fate for me to love it as much as I do. While I do listen to a bit of everything, I mostly enjoy indie/pop. Some of my favourite artists would be: Hozier, Noah Kahan, Billie Eilish, Bon Iver, Ed Sheeran Gigi Perez and Jensen Mcrae ( if I were to lost them all we would be here a while). My favourite part of music is lyricism. While instrumentals are highly important, lyrics are what make or break a song for me. A good melody will be stuck in my head, a good lyric will stand by me for life.

I think this love for lyricism is what pushes my love for poetry. While I am not heavily immersed in the world of poetry, I do love to read a poem every now and again. Pablo Neruda and Sappho are the last poets whose pieces I read ( I would love some recommendations). Although, my love for lyricism also makes it very hard for me to write songs. It makes me feel as though every line I write has to be perfect and has to mean something even though I know that is near impossible.

Anyway, I will stop rambling now. Thank you to everyone who read this!