"Hello Darkness My Old Friend..."

No, no, I'm not speaking about the song. Although yes, I love it. I don't think I shared this meme before on this blog. I have first seen it a few years ago and I loved it. So I am sharing it today. Here darkness is coming around 8:00PM these days, but it's already an improvement. Evening falling earlier and earlier is one of the things I really love about autumn, so I am welcoming this seasonal change. Especially since autumn evenings are so beautiful.

Alone in a crowd

Maybe it is because I have been listening to The Sound of Silence a little bit too often recently, but I keep having these words I used to describe the song yesterday, that it was "about solitude in a crowd". I have this feeling from time to time, sometimes it is stronger than usual. I felt like this last Friday on the way back home in the train, when it was overcrowded with Friday commuters. I felt it again today. I have no social life to speak of since the end of my last acting class, yet I don't crave it right now. I feel like a hermit, a monk or a bear. Maybe it's autumn coming, I don't know, but I do feel slightly asocial.

The Sound of Silence

I watched the 9/11 ceremonies on TV today. Paul Simon from Simon & Garfunkel sang The Sound of Silence. Strangely enough, I had this song in the head these last few days. It was a fitting song for the remembrance day. I thought Simon looked really fragile and broken. I don't easily cry, but I was very close to tears then.

I associate this song with The Graduate, and September days when I was getting back to university, feeling solitary. It is a song about solitude in a crowd, something we all felt at some point or another. This is how many of us felt that day I think. The Future by Leonard Cohen is for me the song of 9/11 and the new era that the atrocity gave birth to. But this one is appropriate for grief and closure.