Years ago I discovered that not all human beings want the same things in life. What you may see as absolute bliss, someone else may see as absolute misery. At first I had a really tough time believing or understanding this. I mean, how could you not want to drive the latest cars, or wear the latest fashions, or even date the hottest girls in town, right? How could anyone not want to be rich, famous, and live a life of carefree fun 24/7? And then I met an old friend by the name of Smooth. Smooth was the type of guy that was always super aware of what people expected, and so he always had his game face on and no one knew any better as to what he was genuinely like. Over many years we built a strong friendship and began seeing one another’s truest colors. Smooth came from a great family and had never truly known poverty or the need for much. His mother raised him very respectfully and he always had everything the Joneses did, so when I found out that Smooth loved the opposite of everything he knew, I was left just a little stuck.
I could relate and understand wanting the things we never had growing up. Shit, it’s the reason I wanted all of those things I mentioned earlier myself, but what I couldn’t understand is how misery could make someone so happy. That sense of happiness, I found out much later, came from the feeling of being alive. You see, for some people, the extreme emotions and energies that exist in those environments of misery, fighting, turmoil, and chaos provide just that —the feeling of being alive and feeling something other than the norm.
Redundancy is boring, I know this all too well, so now that I’m much older I get that concept and respect it from a far, but still respect it nonetheless, because we just never know what others have truly been through. In order to do so, you would literally have to have lived their lives within them and through their very same eyes. It isn’t that people hide who they are, it’s simply that a human being is much too complex to uncover in just a handful of years. So you jump into relationships and get mad or hurt when the people change with or on you, but the truth of the matter is that they didn’t change at all, they’re just showing you more pieces of the complex puzzle that makes them a whole.
Some people love the rain and others can’t stand it. Some people love the Winter and the snow, and others will never experience it again.
I’m only happy when it rains
I’m only happy when it’s complicated
And though I know you can’t appreciate it
I’m only happy when it rains
You know I love it when the news is bad
Why it feels so good to feel so sad
I’m only happy when it rains”
What you get on this Virgin Magnetic Material Remix is Happiness When It Rains, and I respect it 100%.
Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)
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