what love is
i think i've begun to forget what love is. a lil'. maybe it's in the way i treat others sometimes. maybe it's in my assumptions of what people are like and what they believe in or don't believe in.
what happens when what you thought was wrong, what you thought was what life shouldn't be is a part of the people whom you're closest to? what if what God deems as wrong is a part of those people you love? i've heard a song lately, which i really like called "i don't want to be" by gavin degraw. i'll post the lyrics below. it basically talks about a guy who wants to be nothing but himself. he's tired of trying be what people are telling him to be or not to be. at least that's what i get from it. i know for a fact that it is frustrating, fighting with who you really are. trying to be yourself yet find a place in this world.
that's why i wrote this a long time ago:
me, not what everyone else is
not what everyone else does
not what everyone else wants
because i am me and nothing and no one can change me....
i was frustrated that day. and sometimes i fail to remember that people choose to be what i might not agree with but that's who they know they are so how can i judge them? how can i force them to be something else? i cannot. people all around me seem to be saying, this is me, i don't want to change, can you handle that? i know i want to be "me", how come somewhere at the back of my head i don't want them to be who they say they are...or even do what they do that they believe makes them, them?...
"I Don't Want To Be"
I don't need to be anything other
Than a prison guard's son
I don't need to be anything other
Than a specialist's son
I don't have to be anyone other
Than the birth of two souls in one
Part of where I'm going, is knowing where I'm coming from
I don't want to be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've got to do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't want to be anything other than me
I'm surrounded by liars everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by imposters everywhere I turn
I'm surrounded by identity crisis everywhere I turn
Am I the only one who noticed?
I can't be the only one concerned!
I don't want to be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've got to do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't want to be anything other than me
Can I have everyone's attention please?
If you're not like this and that, you're gonna have to leave
I came from the mountain
The crust of creation
My whole situtation-made from clay to stone
And now I'm telling everybody
I don't want to be
Anything other than what I've been trying to be lately
All I have to do
Is think of me and I have peace of mind
I'm tired of looking 'round rooms
Wondering what I've got to do
Or who I'm supposed to be
I don't want to be anything other than me
I don't want to be
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