Elsewhere

When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher assigned us to bring in a song that we feel very strongly about, that we feel describes us or expresses us in some way.

I chose this song. In the first place, while people see me as loud and outgoing, there is nothing I treasure more than being alone, and finding that "calm inside me, in the space where I can breathe."

And "There is a distance I have wanted to touch upon" -- I feel that, my whole life, I've been searching for the perfect distance between me and others. Close enough to be connected, but far enough away for me to be comfortable and to be alone every now and then. I told my boyfriend about this song, because I want him to understand that even though I love him, I have that quite space where I am alone and don't want to be reached...