Sometimes I want to run away. As I walked on stage tonight for my bow in Singin' in the Rain I felt the strong need to run. I didn't want to smile. I didn't want to sing. I didn't want to charm. I wanted to run. This has nothing to do with the wonderful experience of being in a show with my best friend and getting to know a whole new family, it has everything to do with the dissonance in my life.
Dissonance in music is one of my favorite qualities. I love the jagged way it can scrape at your soul with nothing more than a struck chord. I love how it sends chills down my spine and leaves a feeling of raw, unresolved promise.
But dissonance in life is hard to wade through. I think it can be the product of many circumstances, but it for me it is always internal. Something inside of me feels off.
I hate it. And the worst part is...I know where I need to turn. I know what I need to do. So why is it so hard? Part of why I feel like my soul is out of orbit with my body is all the change that is gripping at me, trying to pull me in a million directions, trying to tear right through me it seems. Change is hard. Necessary. But so hard.
Some thoughts as I drift in and out of after-show haze tonight:
I have so many unrealized dreams. Yet I have unlimited potential.
I have so many beautiful, good desires. And they never seem satisfied.
I have a handful of wishes I've been tossing in the same well since I was little. Nothings happened.
Do I need a different well?
I feel out of place. Everyone who has moved with me through life is moving or has moved on. And I still float, drifting along, grasping for anything to help me reach that shore where everyone I love seems to be.
How long will I float, I wonder? How long will I feel dissonant? How long until I can run away... because I can't stay floating here forever.
Dissonance is ironic. It has an intriguing pain to it. But without dissonance, the resolution of it would not exist. And that's the part I'm wanting. The song that's whispered its way through me the last few months has washed me in dissonance. I am ready for a beautiful resolution.
It's amazing the sound dissonance makes in music. And it's amazing what dissonance makes in our LIVES. If we allow this strain, this trial, to help us grow, rather than deter us, it becomes a beautiful chord, a beautiful sound, and a beautiful life lesson. Unfortunately, this is very difficult. Fortunately, you are strong and beautiful so I know you will get through it. Girl. We need to talk more often. I think we are very alike! Loves. Keep smiling :)
ReplyDeleteJenn, I wish you didn't feel this way. I understand fairly well, and I am here for you. Love you!
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