I’ve been humming this song, Brandy by Looking glass all day at work, trying to figure out why. I mean apart from clients named Brandy, that’s the obvious one.
However, this is the song indirectly about the thing I never get about humanity. People putting things over people. But it cuts deeper, specifically because of how it is used metaphorically in Guardians of the Galazxy 2. Spoilers so be warned. However the villain ends up saying that it justifies him following his passions at the expense of those he claims to love, to their harm actually.
I didn’t know the song before the movie, but the more I listened to it the more that itched at me. I thought because of my own nature to be meglomaniacal…. so I resolved that, but still it bugs me.
Then I realized tonight, when I was doing prep for what went wrong. This is what went wrong, in my family. People loving things more than people. My great grandpa loving familiarity more than his family. My grandpa loving alcohol more than his wife and kids. Heck, being honest since it’s just us, my parents loving their passions more than they loved me. Loving themselves and only loving me as an extention of that until very recently.
Brandy, your a fine girl, what a good wife you’d be.
That line speaks to me a lot, though I am male. To be expected to fill a role, and be grateful for it. It’s so much that’s wrong with this world. It’s much of what makes me bitter. I couldn’t fill the damn role. I don’t have the right brain chemistry. Then they compounded it by treating my head like a chemistry lab. Follow up I can’t join the military so I have that handicap first in my family thanks a lot.
but my life, my love and my lady is the sea
THEN BE WITH YOUR SEA, SEE IF SHE BRINGS YOU DRINKS.
I mean….. seriously. Not saying the real world Brandy has to take issue, she may have no issue.
I’m just saying the metaphorical other Brandys and I have talked it over, and if the sea is so damn important, how about having IT do all the work, and you can send us home?
how did I turn this into an AI rant?
*sigh*
point is, that’s what’s wrong with the world. People have no solidarity with our own kind. Too many of us would rather choose anything, anything at all rather than someone else.
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I know the feeling. Sometimes I feel like I spend all my time doing the right thing by others at my own expense, and getting burnt in the process. No good deed goes unpunished.
On my good days, I give people the benefit of the doubt. They are mired in their own problems or sadness, too mired to see mine. On my bad days, they’re all selfish assholes. Black and white thinking at it’s finest. I don’t know what kind of day today is.