this<\/a> .<\/p>\nSuzanne by Leonard Cohen.<\/p>\n
In all honesty, this song makes me feel more than I can really describe. \u00a0It takes me breathe away. \u00a0I can get lost so easy in the words and the rhythm and the story. \u00a0For me, this song signified a beginning of how I would spend my spring and summer in my last semester of highschool; that period of my life was one of huge change. \u00a0I started to really define who I was (in the, I-will-never-fully-finish-the-defnition-until-I-stop-living-kind-of-way-because-we-always-change).<\/p>\n
This song brings back so many memories; more than any yearbook or goodbye grad class 2010 speech can.<\/p>\n
When I listen to this song, I can feel the warm Dawson summer nights driving home from Lael’s house after watching a movie with our friends. \u00a0The windows down. The sky indigo. Bright stars. \u00a0And the sun always on the horizon because it never fully sets in the summer. \u00a0I can remember the smell, the smell of just before it rains. \u00a0Everything was still and everything was perfect. \u00a0In my life, I have felt a lot of joy and utter happiness… but that feeling I had that night driving back, I have never felt such careless, fearless, reckless abandon. \u00a0It was just one of those moments in my life where I knew peace and it didn’t matter who I was or where I was going or how I got there. \u00a0All that mattered was that place, the feeling and that moment.<\/p>\n
I think we should all have these moments: these moments of complete peace. \u00a0I don’t think we can all get there the same way, but just that moment where the world stops in the midst of everyday life and everything just makes sense even for a brief moment keep us sane. \u00a0Those moments remind me that it will all, always be alright. \u00a0And even in the middle of life, time can stop.<\/p>\n
After all, time is a human invention really the sun never sets or rises. \u00a0If we make time, then for just a single moment of our lives, our busy, crazy, hectic lives, it should stop. And let us breathe.<\/p>\n
xo. Sam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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