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I think this is a misheard song lyric, but it's pretty cool and in my mind, it actually can make sense:
I am going to turn myself into a melody
What do you think someone could mean by that?
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Perhaps to have their essential way of being in the world be something relatively simple and lovely, something that can take hold of people in a primal way, and be transmitted between them, and in the course of that transmission enjoy an existence that's both lightly-held and eternal?
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This is way better than what I thought 👀
I was just thinking that it means people think of you when they wake up and want to interact with you again. But everything else you said makes so much sense and adds so much depth, thank you! I like this quote so much more now.
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Either sincerely: that their emotions and identity is being transformed into a harmonious whole. Everything is coming together.
Cynically: they are becoming a tired cliche typified by a bubblegum song lyric.
I like the first and hate myself for thinking the second.
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Wow 🫨 so much philosophical. To me, it evokes the idea of expressing yourself through or like music, like your personality, feelings, or essence becoming a song. Maybe it’s about living in harmony, flowing with life, or finding a rhythm that tells what you are. It may also mean leaving behind something beautiful and lasting, like a melody that sticks in someone’s mind. 🎶🎵
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Thank you! I really like this, especially this part:
It may also mean leaving behind something beautiful and lasting, like a melody that sticks in someone’s mind. 🎶🎵
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Thanks 😄
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Once you understand your life everything makes sense
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care to elaborate how the quote fits into this?
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The idea that life is like a melody is where you compare your life to music, suggesting that life has structure and beauty despite its ups and downs
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What a peaceful thing to contemplate. A Melody is a compilation of notes to make a whole. I feel like it's being in sync with yourself. Turning all the good and bad things about you into a complete picture. All the pieces working in tandem to make you, you.
Imagine taking those pieces and making something beautiful.
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That they are going to make themselves pleasant for themselves and others in an obvious way.
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