To me it’s about a relationship in which one or both people have made the relationship into an ideal that they know is actually a myth. Because they know it’s a myth, it can’t be defined, hence “help me to name it.” So there are the questions of what is our relationship, where are we headed, and is this really the love we claim it to be? With that there is a sadness and a drifting in and out because the relationship has no definition or direction. Instead it’s a facade. They mean the things they say in expressing their love for each other but deep down they know the relationship isn’t what they’ve made it out to be. They’re sincere in what they say but yet all the while they operate in a voluntary denial of what the relationship really is.
Now, if they had truly built a myth and believed it wholeheartedly, they would know what needed to be done to make the relationship work and the myth a reality. Because they know deep down that the myth isn’t reality, they don’t do the things necessary for the relationship to survive. Maybe they’ve always known that the relationship had to end one day and then it inevitably dies.
Now they find themselves in a new direction. Arrows falling from the sun is the pain of the fallout. The canyon calling is the canyon of loneliness and despair that we experience after a breakup. We wonder who or if anyone will be there to tell us we’re not alone, that it will be okay, and to help us put the pieces of our shattered lives back together.
They can’t keep hanging on to the relationship that has died. However there is one last option on the table and that is to go all in and do the things that will make the myth into the loving relationship they made it out to be. Otherwise let what remains burn to ashes.
There’s still the question of what the relationship ever was though. It’s hard to have closure when you’re not even sure what you had and therefore what you lost. Essentially this person is trying to make sense of it all, which is the fallout when we voluntarily live out the lie that we’ve created. Ironically the lie was created to give meaning and definition to the relationship to begin with because it felt good to live in it at the time.
To me it’s about a relationship in which one or both people have made the relationship into an ideal that they know is actually a myth. Because they know it’s a myth, it can’t be defined, hence “help me to name it.” So there are the questions of what is our relationship, where are we headed, and is this really the love we claim it to be? With that there is a sadness and a drifting in and out because the relationship has no definition or direction. Instead it’s a facade. They mean the things they say in expressing their love for each other but deep down they know the relationship isn’t what they’ve made it out to be. They’re sincere in what they say but yet all the while they operate in a voluntary denial of what the relationship really is.
Now, if they had truly built a myth and believed it wholeheartedly, they would know what needed to be done to make the relationship work and the myth a reality. Because they know deep down that the myth isn’t reality, they don’t do the things necessary for the relationship to survive. Maybe they’ve always known that the relationship had to end one day and then it inevitably dies.
Now they find themselves in a new direction. Arrows falling from the sun is the pain of the fallout. The canyon calling is the canyon of loneliness and despair that we experience after a breakup. We wonder who or if anyone will be there to tell us we’re not alone, that it will be okay, and to help us put the pieces of our shattered lives back together.
They can’t keep hanging on to the relationship that has died. However there is one last option on the table and that is to go all in and do the things that will make the myth into the loving relationship they made it out to be. Otherwise let what remains burn to ashes.
There’s still the question of what the relationship ever was though. It’s hard to have closure when you’re not even sure what you had and therefore what you lost. Essentially this person is trying to make sense of it all, which is the fallout when we voluntarily live out the lie that we’ve created. Ironically the lie was created to give meaning and definition to the relationship to begin with because it felt good to live in it at the time.