choose joy

you know that expression “pour your heart out”? i think we’ve all known it in action and in feeling at least once. tears and sweat and snot. a mess. it looks ridiculous to anyone else but it’s the revolution of the earth to you. the things you say would sound silly if not for the context of grief or whatever other depth you may be surrounded by. you don’t just pour your heart out, you remove it from your chest and shake it with violence like a dirt-dried article of clothing. i’m thankful i haven’t experienced that in a while. but on nights like tonight, where i need a proverbial “shake”, it’s good to have the rawness of someone else’s passion in your ears. something to listen to and attach—although you’ve no direct relation (this song is about the death of a father, my dad’s kicking). it’s good to feel. it’s good to get cathartic. so i’m thankful for artists that utilize their medium to display everything that’s going on between their ribs without holding back one bit. this is good. this is a good picture of what raw emotion sounds like.