| Britney Spears – Where Are You Now Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"Where Are You Now?" took on a new meaning for me after my cat, Greta, died at age 20. Like many other cats before her, Greta ran away to die when we were at the beach. She acted strangely the night before, frantic to see all of us. We didn't understand something was wrong until hours later when she hadn't come back home. The animal shelter, animal control, police, and all of the neighborhood searched for her. We put flyers all over town and got a lot of false alarms. The closest we got to any kind of answer was when a coast guard family called us saying they tried to help her, but she adamantly resisted them to go into the reeds. Though we checked the reeds plenty of times, we did not even find as much as a body. After two months and tons of false alarms, we finally had to accept that she was gone. I find myself playing 'Where Are You Now?' when I miss her because we never got a full goodbye, or even any closure about what happened. Her body could be anywhere at this point...and it's hard to let go when you don't know what happened or how she died. It would be far easier to let her go if we knew where she laid in the reeds to rest, or if her body washed out to sea during a storm. Even now, we still check the nearby beaches looking for as much as a bone, but still nothing. |
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| X Ambassadors – Unsteady Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| For me, it fits perfectly for when I got Mollaret's meningitis while living in Los Angeles. All of my family was on the East Coast, and I found myself going from doctor to doctor just to figure out what was wrong. I ran fevers near 101 almost every single day, and my legs either threatened to give out from under me or gave out after I felt too much pain. The disorder made my depression far worse, and also gave me lighting bolt headaches, a horribly stiff neck, dizziness, and nausea so bad I got sick after two bites of food. On the worst days, I would be curled up in bed with pain from my neck to my knees. 'Unsteady' was playing a lot on the radio when I drove to all the doctors, and I found myself crying for my family a lot at my lowest points. I couldn't get a diagnosis out there, and I found myself asking for help from everyone I knew because the sickness left me so unsteady. | |
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