Lovely

There's a song by Billie Eilish.Lovely.There's a conundrum behind the song. Heart made of glass and mind made of stone. Let's imagine the heart made of stone. I guess that's way more legit. The mind is more like glass. Memories compared to faint fingerprints. Misty car windows and you gently draw a figurine.S, heart or anything. Do memories fade? I guess they do. Just like the dewy window pane. The mist in the form of implacable time slowly covers up. Covering, forced? Na. That's how the world works. Now why I compare heart to stone? Have you ever experienced a heartbreak? It can be from anyone friend or lover. Failed expectations. It makes your chest feel so heavy. You feel an everlasting pain right at the centre of your being. The pain is like a heavy weight on your chest. You try to feel it. What's making it so heavy? You're not fine with that weight. I wonder from where the weight suddenly pops in.  You just seem so disturbed with its presence. Heartbeats with a normal dub and lub. A rise and fall. The pain resides. You caress the spot. Does it leave you? It does.Eventually.Stones do get eroded with time. A destructive process. It is painful in either case. A stonecutter uses a hammer. Time too uses a hammer. I wonder in what way? Remembrances of the fact you still have the pain.Phew!That's a terrible way to shape your heart(s). I believe it's already shaped. The pain beautifies it or it's the other way round. I have come across paintings of hearts with flowers popping out of nowhere. Flowers my dear readers. So do they stand to protect or make it more vulnerable? The heart is like a gyre. Spherical. I have taken the movements. Phases of the moon. It lights you like full moon night and slackens you down like a new moon.Anyway.What about the mind then? The stonecutter is busy shaping our heart. Timeless procedure. The brain is fragile like glass. Borosil Glass. It can tolerate a lot of temperature variations but it can break easily. A crack here and there are other ramifications. What nonsense! Poor brain.Poor us.
Heart made of glass, mind made of stone.Either way pathetic.

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