In a recent therapy session, my therapist enlightened me to the fact that my wife and I have had different races to run.
Intuitively, I understood this. But it was her follow-up that my wife's childhood nutrition may have been so different from mine, that it radically shapes the life-races we've had to run, which really drove the point into my body.
I can remember being hungry as a kid and waking up in the house and seeing my breath it was so cold. I vaguely remember powdered milk. Disgusting.
So with this in my mind germinating, my wife sends me this:
Which is really about an overcoming ethos in which there are no "systemic" hurdles, only individual shortcomings (especially willpower). I'm generalizing but I genuinely feel this is the rhetorical endpoint.
Also rumbling around up there was a chord progression I really liked. So I did some song freewriting:
Was denken Sie? (What do you think?)
CHORUS
It’s not as simple as you make it out to be
It’s not as clear-cut to me
It’s not as easy as one, two, three
Why don’t you believe me?
It’s almost as if you can’t see me (or feel me)
VERSE I
Who’s to say who overcomes? Who bends the world and gets the good things done? When we’ve got different races to run Please don’t mistake my question As a justification We’ve had different races to run
VERSE II
Maybe it depends, from where you begun Maybe all the babies have a damn good reason Maybe baby, we’ve got different races to run Please don’t mistake my question As a justification We’ve had different races to run
VERSE III
(one or two chord stops)
They might tell you there’s no system (pronounced sys-TUM)
Only veiled machination
They might tell you the hero overcomes
While forgetting no man is an island (pronounced eye-LUND)
They might tell you not to question
They might tell you it’s an illusion
An excuse masquerading as a delusion But trust me, we’ve had different races to run
