Philnensia

It’s my first year in Blogosphere! It has been a blast, and blogging has always kept me sharp and focused, while appreciating fellow writers and sharers and enjoying profound and sometimes funny moments with them, as if we have been like long lost friends. I like to thank the following people who have made my blogging life really a fun and insightful experience which will always color my existence as long as there’s a computer I can get my hands on (provided it has internet, haha!): Kim, Bullish, Sarah Flanigan, Qazse, Heather, Zaph, Soulless, Janet Leigh, Ranna, Manoj, Flori, Janet Cabral, Simonne, Beejing, Amada Sanz, My Soul, Elle, Ryan, Sonya Rose, and so many others that regaled me with their violent reactions and loving contradictions, you know who you are, and you’re always in my heart. Thanks Everybody! And keep on blogging and intellectualizing the Net with Poetry and Pure Fiction! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!

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For my First Anniversary Post, I present to you…Tadaaahhh! My reaction to a prime example of how pop culture and the music industry can produce the most erudite, existential, thinking lyrics slash poetry that captures an alternative view of life and its smoke and mirrors. I’m talking about John Mayer’s “No Such Thing”, with the line that caught my imagination: “I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world just a lie you’ve got to rise above…”

Come to think of it, from adolescence we blunder into life with our preconceptions and assumptions about so many things, hoping that these beliefs will come out true and helpful to our growth and enjoyment of life. However, as John may have discovered upon reaching adulthood, that the initial onslaught of the “so called life” blasts most of all that we thought it to be, leaving us jaded, cynical, wary, and even paranoid. The second shock comes when what we know as the real world is but a mirage of deeper and more darker truths that seem to pull us down into more depression and suspicion. We begin to question what is real in books, news, government agendas, military decisions, geopolitical events, our own personal feelings, and the hearts of those we know.

The song, with its albeit jumpy, psychedelic, frisky, vibrant melody, as if a regression to high school sung by a wizened college boy, has a sad connotation but with a note of redemption, that after screaming your lungs out out of your dismay and sobering with the “real world”, John Mayer says we still have a chance to rise above the lies and red tape and propaganda. Running through the walls of your high school took a lot of gut instinct and sharp feeling, hence, this is just what we need to rise above the divisions, turmoil, and misinformations. Follow your heart, scream at the top of your lungs, if you must, and everything just might fall into place. With a little moxie and a prayer.

I have the video and lyrics for you to see and try a listen to. Hope you can relate and hum to John Mayer’s tune. See yah next time!

No Such Thing
John Mayer

“welcome to the real world”
she said to me condescendingly
“take a seat, take your life
plot it out in black and white”

well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
and the drama queens
I’d like to think the best of me
is still hiding up my sleeve

they love to tell you “stay inside the lines”
but something’s better on the other side

I want to run through the halls of my high school
I want to scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world
just a lie you’ve got to rise above

so the good boys and girls take the so-called right track
faded white hats grabbing credits, maybe transfers
they read all the books but they can’t find the answers
all of our parents, they’re getting older
I wonder if they’ve wished for anything better
while in their memories, tiny tragedies

they love to tell you “stay inside the lines”
but something’s better on the other side

I want to run through the halls of my high school
I want to scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world
just a lie you’ve got to rise above

I am invincible
I am invincible
I am invincible
as long as I’m alive

I want to run through the halls of my high school
I want to scream at the top of my lungs
I just found out there’s no such thing as the real world
just a lie you’ve got to rise above

I just can’t wait for my ten year reunion
I’m gonna bust down the double doors
and when I stand on these tables before you
you will know what all this time was for