Let’s be sensitive to what happens to us

My dear brother, my sweet sister…

Can I invite you on a journey?

It is an invitation I received to look at myself in a mirror called “Where Did We Lose Each Other”… This song really talks about my life, it reflects my losses, it screams my hopes and it enlightens my crossroads. Since the first day I read these words, I knew they were a mirror that I had the option to look into for real or turn my eyes away in denial. Just like it has been said in one of the videos of the special project page, either we decide to face reality or slowly we become the reflection of something else, far from being alive and far from being our true self…just a pale reflection of our illusions.

Enough with the illusions, enough with cutting ourselves from embracing this life of communion and love, there’s more awaiting for us and I want all of us to grasp whatever is ours!

Let’s read this text, let’s listen to the song and let’s be sensitive to what happens inside of us…

“Where Did We Lose Each Other -French part translated by Miss Isabel-“

It’s been a while isn’t it
Where did we lose each other
Is it somewhere between
Your skin, my grief and weakness

Where did we lose each other
It’s strange somehow (illusions feeding memories)
There must be dreams I can breathe
Love’s long way gone (winter’s crawling over me)

It’s been a while, it’s been too long
I should have told you everything,
Needed to keep it in, to keep the sorrows inside

Your eyes, your eyes, looking at me
Your blame, my shame, a thousand whispers

I’m falling down, I’m on my knees
Just like a soul who lost his way, away, away
The cut is deep, but ain’t too late
Need salvation to light my way, away, away

I’m just a dream who’s been fading away
A craving ghost that kept running way
Grace’s out of sight, I won’t give it away
Just give it away, can’t give it away…

It’s been a while isn’t it,
Glad to be back from despairs
I never thought it could
Be good to scream in laughter

Where did we lose each other
It’s strange somehow (I’ve been dressed up in your fears)
I’ve learned to lie in my grief
Tear’s long way gone (I’m not sleeping at your feet )

I’m falling down, I’m on my knees
Just like a soul who lost his way, away, away
The cut is deep, but ain’t too late
Need salvation to light my way, away, away

I’m just a dream who’s been fading away
A craving ghost that kept running way
Grace’s out of sight, I won’t give it away
Just give it away, can’t give it away…

I am winter, I am the wind
A dead season, betrayed a hundred times
a fooled heart fooled, slap of time
All is lost, I’m broken
I believed in you, painted with white,
You lied to me, soiled from dawn,
Followed your steps, dizzy soul
I no longer love you, I come back to life

I’m falling down, I’m on my knees
Just like a soul who lost his way, away, away
The cut is deep, but ain’t too late
Need salvation to light my way, away, away

I’m just a dream who’s been fading away
A craving ghost that kept running way
Grace’s out of sight, I won’t give it away
Just give it away, can’t give it away…

1) Which line sticks to your brain?

2) What word(s) cuts into your heart like a precise surgeon?

3) What is in it that confuses you or enlightens you?

4 ) What feeling comes up to the surface, that you have to deal with as you listen to the song and see the video?

My answers are down here in the comment section…I’m waiting for yours!!!

-Miss Isabel

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  • KLAD

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    1. “Needed to keep it in, to keep the sorrows inside”

    2. “Your blame, my shame a thousand whispers”

    3. Enlightened: The cut is deep but aint too late need salvation to light my way, away, away

    Confused: I won’t give it away, Just give it away, I can’t give it away

    4. I felt anger, a sense of despair, anguish, hatred, self-hatred, hope and a chance for love when I heard this song. When I saw the video I felt that what was presented where kindred spirits that I could connect with and there are others out there who feel the same. When I hear this song I when I mean hope and chance for love is that Im hoping for a future where my scars are healed and I continue moving on my destined path, but sometimes those same negative emotions are holding me back (memories of my past that is unpleasant) and I desperately want more and there is a chance for it. Though I feel it is ultimately unnecessary I feel fear that the future I desire won’t come to pass and that makes me hate myself because I know I have the potential but I don’t know how to release it.

    This is my response to your questions and I thank you and your crew for a wonderful piece.

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  • Miss Ari

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    P.S. One more line I found very close to my heart: “It’s strange somehow (I’ve been dressed up in your fears)”.. Know it, been there.. These words can make you think about a lot of things, but now it’s helped me to realize once again this: never, never ever in my life do I want to get back, to the life in somebody else’s fears, fears of doing something that they’re afraid of doing and are telling me not to do; I don’t want to ever live being scared of taking a step – they say I may fall and those, others, may not to approve me.. I want to be myself, no matter how many scratches and bruises it may cost me.. The cage is opened.

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  • Miss Ari

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    Before answering the questions you offered to us and that we can use to check our own souls, I must say something.. First, after the lyrics’ translation into Russian was done, it hasn’t been possible for my mind to throw the lines out!..lol The song is on in my head just ALL the time!.. Second, it’s really, really hard to choose certain lines to give you as answers to your questions, as the majority of them do speaks to me… But I’ll try..

    1) Which line sticks to your brain?

    I guess, I’ll name the following:
    “Where did we lose each other? Is it somewhere between your skin, my grief and weakness?”

    I can’t really know what meaning the amazing author put into these lines, but they make me think about the number of times egoism of ones and half-living (as it’s not really a life then..) in grief and fears of others have led to keeping things inside => misunderstanding => frustration => even deeper wounds, etc., poisoned our lives and our relationships, my life and my relationships with people.. The enormous number.. When you’re lost, when you are not alive, you cannot be true to people, and thus you cannot grow nothing fruitful out of your relationships with them.. We need to find a way out, to find ourselves..being lost in grief, weakness or egoism is not a life but existing.. I don’t want that anymore, I want to be truly alive!

    2) What word(s) cuts into your heart like a precise surgeon?

    Hmm..as I said, there were many.. But let me choose this:
    “It’s strange somehow (illusions feeding memories)”

    I’ve just experienced it lately.. illusions really do feed memories, making us see a wrong picture of the past–and consequently, the present,–making us want to try to stick to it, miss it and never moving on.. That shouldn’t be like that.. We need to realize they’re just mirages and dispel them.. Otherwise, we will still exist in an illusionary world of self-destruction and full of lies to our own poor self..

    3) What enlightens me is definitely the lines of hope in this song, which I found the following:

    “It’s been a while, isn’t it,
    Glad to be back from despairs
    I never thought it could
    Be good to scream in laughter”
    &
    “The cut is deep, but ain’t too late”
    &
    “Je ne t’aime plus, je reprends vie”

    4) What feeling comes up to the surface, that you have to deal with as you listen to the song and see the video?

    The song helps me think of the truth and lies in my life, makes me realize I want to live for real, to not hold on to the past; realize that sometimes it’s better to wave farewell to some people in our life, no matter how much we’re used to be around them–as our illusions whisper into our hearts and minds,–and no matter how much strength it will take us to do so, to move on in our lives, to actually start to LIVE.. The song makes me think one more time of forgiving myself, even if I see people’s eyes blaming me for some failures I had in the past. To forgive yourself is the toughest part, but it IS possible, and actually it’s all you really need.. not their “I forgive you”, but one said to yourself by your own self.. finally..

    The song just appeared to be too deep and meaningful to me, giving me too much food for thoughts and heart to put everything that comes to the surface into words..
    I just can say it gives Hope, it surely gives Hope..

    Thank you so much to you all!..
    I love you,
    – Irene

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  • britt

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    I’ll give u answer to first question 🙂

    1.) I’m falling down, I’m on my knees
    Just like a soul who lost his way,

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  • Mary Beth's mom

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    Reading the comments already posted, it’s clear that this discussion is working miracles of healing already…as frightening as it may be, we have to open the wound to let the sickness flow out and the cleansing flow in..just allowing the skin to grow over a poison-infested cut leaves us with a sickening, painful and very dangerous wound.

    “I’m falling down, I’m on my knees
    Just like a soul who lost his way, away, away
    The cut is deep, but ain’t too late
    Need salvation to light my way, away, away”

    All of your questions are wrapped up in this section for me because although it acknowledges great pain – some due to my own faults and resulting actions, some due to harm inflicted by others intentionally or unknowingly, some simply the effect of circumstances that seem random and yet hurtful – there is tremendous hope expressed in the lyrics. Yes, the cut is deep (and the cuts due to my own faults are by far the most painful), but it is never too late for any of us – there is Light, there is Hope for all – and it is that “knowing” in my heart that keeps me alive and helps me to face each day with resolve to continually grow, to forgive myself and others, to continually strive to nurture joy within my own heart and within others. Life is too short to wallow in misery – the journey of the heart may take us through valleys but we never walk in those places alone, and if we open our eyes to see, there is always Light to illuminate the next step before us..

    Thank you for providing this precious space for us, Isabel..

    love you and believe in you always!!! mom e

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  • Chris

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    Okay… I’m going to jump in too… You have opened the way for us so, I’m in!!!

    ”What is in it that confuses you or enlightens you?”
    I’d answer the part where it says ” I won’t give it away , Just give it away, can’t give it away…”

    I love how I recognize myself in times where I know I am overcoming something holding me, the battle goes on inside of me and,
    even though I know I will end up opening my hands, there is still a part where I say ”I won’t” then ”okay I will” and then ”I want but I just feel like I can’t”…

    That is something enlightening for me, cause it is the representation of the fact that we are all together, all living quite similar journeys… all strong and victorious realizing that we are the same…This enables us to understand each other and it is a kind of support in itself…
    At least this is how I see it!!

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  • Rob Richards

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    1. Just like a soul who lost his way.

    This line expresses what I feel about having lost myself in a relationship. Putting yourself and your dreams second to someone elses and losing the spark in your soul that feeds you those dreams.

    2. I should have told you everything, needed to keep it in, to keep the sorrows inside.

    Being unwilling to communicate fears or problems or sadness for fear of the consequences. Not taking a chance to get past lifes issues, holding it all inside and letting it eat at you.

    3. The cut is deep but it aint too late, need salvation to light my way.

    I feel enlightened and positive hearing these lines. Its never too late to heal wounds no matter how deep. We can find ourselves again. There is always light.

    4. The loss of love, life, dreams and myself. Needing to find myself and love myself for who I am not who others see me as.

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  • Vanessa Beaudoin

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    1)”Where did we lose each other
    It’s strange somehow (illusions feeding memories)”

    Lately I’ve lost close friends, I’ve lost myself… so those words stick in my brain because I constantly ask myself that question. Yet, I know I should focus on things I can control rather than things that are out of my hands.

    2)”Your eyes, your eyes, looking at me
    Your blame, my shame, a thousand whispers”

    For me it’s the feeling it’s the feeling I am avoiding constantly. People looking at me and seeing my failures, seeing my scars… I hide to avoid the feeling of shame. So those words cut me deep because I know the shame I am trying to hide.

    3)”The cut is deep, but ain’t too late”

    The simple fact that it says it isn’t too late… it’s not too late for me or anyone! It’s the hope that I will one day get over my shame and allow myself to be loved by others fully.

    4)The song overall speaks to my present state of mind.. feeling lost in a sea of emotions you don’t quiet understand… seeing a reflection you don’t quiet want to see. Feeling angry at yourself for exposing too much of yourself to others… I’ve shut down and I am aware of it. It’s a protection barrier… am I right or am I wrong? I don’t know… but I know one thing…. it’s not too late for me.

    Love you!!
    Van

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  • Miss Isabel

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    1) “I never thought it could
    Be good to scream in laughter”

    To me, this line is the symbol of the life I want, a simple life of freedom of screaming out without ever holding back things creeping inside, laughing from living the moment without any fear of what is next, or any fear of just being myself.

    2) “I’ve learned to lie in my grief
    Tear’s long way gone (I’m not sleeping at your feet )”

    I have to fight every day not to see myself as a victim, numbed by illusions and drifting passively in a stream of self-destruction. These words are what I need to cut away from me every single morning: lies, self-pity, numbness, hopelessness…to embrace the exact opposite!

    3) “illusions feeding memories”
    It is confusing to look back and realize so much was just fed by lies and built on illusions, at the same time it is enlightening where I’m at now and tells me I really need to change my ways if I want to live something I will be proud of at the end of the day, in a year, at the end of my life.

    4) I have to deal with the shame of my losses and a desire to close my eyes. I also feel there’s a hope and a power available for me.

    <3
    -Miss Isabel

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