Wake Me Up

Hi everyone! It's been quite long since I last wrote here (as usual T.T) but anyway here I am and yup, it's Saturday once again! My writing day (or should I say night) or even... It's Sunday already but oh well whatever it is. I'm here now! Well life's been alright I guess. The long Hari Raya holiday has come to an end so it's back to work I suppose.

And... Can't believe that August is coming to an end very soon too. It's like 6 more days to its end!

Well I began today's post with a lyric video of Avicii's song Wake Me Up (featuring Aloe Blacc). Fell in love with it the first time I heard its premiere video in Youtube and well after giving it a proper listen like 2 weeks ago I think, I found out that this song is how I'm feeling these days. Or even these months. Or probably, I feel that this song speaks for us - the people who are in their twenties. Or probably early twenties when they're leaving their child-hood stage.

I suppose I'll share with you my views on this song by dissecting its lyric to explain how I feel?

Feeling my way through the darkness, guided by a beating heart.

I think that this line speaks about the uncertainties that we're facing. Be it after we graduated and stuff. The darkness refer to the uncertainty of the future while the beating heart refers to what we want to do in life. That voice from within to chase our dreams and do what we love. Despite how everything around you makes you doubt your decision.

They tell me I'm too young to understand, they say I'm caught up in a dream.

Same as above, where everyone tells you that what you're doing is wrong and stuff. They doubt you and choose what seems like a better option to you (although of course it doesn't work for you, because that's not what you want to do).

Life will pass me by if I don't open up my eyes

You only live once and you know it. But then you start to get confused on the decision of doing what you love, and doing what you "have" to do.

[I'm skipping the chorus for later]

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands.

When you realise that you've grown up, that you're an adult now, that's when shit just got real. Things happen to you and you feel overwhelmed by these new things. Responsibilities, life as an adult, leaving school and entering the workforce and so on. You feel them as a burden, something you can't bear with your two hands, let alone your shoulders.

Hope I get the chance to travel the world. But I don't have any plans.

Of course, the twenties is when life gets interesting and fun. The age where you travel around with your friends when you are young. Imagine traveling with your partners and children, things will be so different. This is the age we hope and dream to travel around the world but truth be told, we say it more often than we actually plan it. I guess traveling is an excuse or more of an escapism for us from the reality. I mean who doesn't love traveling. Well I know some people don't. But yeah hell I love traveling.

So wake me up when it's all over. When I'm wiser and I'm older
All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost.

The chorus of the song touches my heart the most. Like seriously. I guess it's because that's what I told myself sometimes. I wish I can skip this part of life - the growing up and settling down part. I wish I can just close my eyes and wake up tomorrow knowing I'm like in my 50s or 60s, retired and enjoying my life. But then of course, I realise if that happened I would have missed a lot of exciting things in life so well, not really a wise decision.

As for the second sentence, I think that's how we all feel. Whenever we finish a chapter in our lives we feel really brand new and reborn kinda thing. Feel like we've passed a chapter and we're in the conquest of writing the next one. Only to realise either you don't know how to write the new one, or you're confused to write the new one, or worst, you write a new one filled with rubbish scramblings you don't even understand. So yeah.

Well so yeah I guess this is why I feel this song is such a suitable one for us, the people in their early twenties. Being lost in the world as we step out of academia - of the place we called school and entered to what finally we know as, life. So please, people, if you're in universities now, treasure your life and your time well because it is when you step out of it that shit will get real. Enjoy your time as a student! And try to complain less of how much you hate school.

I guess the twenties is the age where we're all confused of what to do. Unless for that handful of individuals who truly know what they want to do in life and hang onto them since they're young lads. To put it in a way, the twenties is the age where we are caught in the middle between the things you want to do, things you have to do and for some people, things you promise to do.

But of course I'm not scaring you (younger folks) there because I seem to put the twenties in a scary light. No no no, it is not. It is also the fun and colourful age because we're young and our bodies let us do a lot of things we won't be able to do when we grow up (and old). This would probably be the most fun times of your life. And you will miss again, when you grow up.

Alright, that's all for me today. I think I should do more of this, like sharing you things that I love be it music, photos, places or food to revive my blog. Since most of the time I have nothing much to blog about. Okay till then, for now!