Constellations is a Chilling Song

I love this Jack Johnson’s “Constellation.” The lyrics are beautiful and it’s damn chilling when I listen to the sounds. My mood changes. It has a poetic feeling. It’s like calm, cherishing feelings of those little moments you spend just watching the sunset and looking at the stars. The lyric has such deep meanings…it seems like he sure knows life and how to live life, the gift of life, and the real beauty in life.  His other songs like “If I Could,” “Breakdown,” are songs must listen to.

It is amazing how "we drew our own constellations." It resembles the phrase "drawing conclusions"…drawing to an end. This song is amazing, just like every other song by Jack.

And another line, 'listen close enough all else fades... fades away.' It sounds damn chilling to our lives. And it’s true.

The song helps me to bring and build beautiful memories of my child, family, and times.

Jack Johnson is a Hawaiian-folk singer-songwriter. He is a soft rocker, surfer and filmmaker.  

And I would like to leave here with my favorite song, Constellations.

"Constellations"

The light was leaving
In the west it was blue
The children's laughter sang
And skipping just like the stones they threw
Their voices echoed across the way
It's getting late

It was just another night
With a sunset
And a moonrise not so far behind
To give us just enough light
To lay down underneath the stars
Listen to papa's translations
Of the stories across the sky
We drew our own constellations

The west winds often last too long
The wind may calm down
Nothing ever feels the same
Sheltered under the Kamani tree
Waiting for the passing rain
Clouds keep moving to uncover the scene
Stars above us chasing the day away
To find the stories that we sometimes need
Listen close enough
All else fades, fades away

It was just another night
With a sunset
And a moonrise not so far behind
To give us just enough light
To lay down underneath the stars
Listen to all the translations
Of the stories across the sky
We drew our own constellations.

 

Something to Think Over

Here are my hilarious thoughts which strike me time and again, and I feel it’s bad to think over these, sometimes.

1. DPT was Druk Prohibition Tshogpa, not Druk Phunsum Tshogpa. Because of its banning policy, it suffered landslide-like thrashing defeat. And now, PDP, People’s Darling Party, has become people’s dead party, where everyone talks about all colors lie; mostly black lie. Feeding ocean of wealth themselves first, and giving a lean drop to others.

2. Parliamentary democracy in essence has become PDP’s democracy. Not people’s democracy. The power of PDP’s bureaucracy has greatly extended; media interferences, salary issues, taxes issues, fuel, etc.

3. I like this from Kamala Das, “An Introduction.” It goes: “I don’t know politics but I know the names/ Of those in power and can repeat them like/Days of the week, or names of months, beginning with….”

So I know that power has faces and these faces have names; it does not matter what policy they stand for, but it is useful to know their names, as it is useful to be able to name the days and months.

4. A recent graduate first wants to try a good government job, if not, then, try for some self entrepreneurship, and if he failed in all these, he’d go for teacher, his last/unwanted choice. See the condition of teachers!

5. In the corrupt society, if you’re an anti-corrupt practice, you’re lost. You must be in the system of corrupt practice. You get what you want. This is where you belong.

6. All war movies are made based on wars in the Middle East, esp. Afghanistan, Gaza, Siberia and Iraq. Why?

7. Bhutan is the last heaven on the earth, say many. Every country is a heaven of its own. Chauvinistic??

8. The rich heart is rich; a poor heart is poor, no matter what you are, or what you have.

9. Kindness for the act of God is not kindness; being self–aware- kindness/compassion; no god, no coercion, but natural kindness is what I believe is to be a kind of kindness.

10. Negative thoughts are unwarranted self-imposed mental trashes?

11. By name, civil servants are anti-politic, or apolitical, but they influenced the voters the most. They are the most politically active in the faction. The crust of politics is the educated mass. How can they be apolitical?

12. Politicians are inclined to the helms of services. They are servants to our people, not in any case, their lip services; not non-performers.

13. I learned: a good politician (Who earns votes) has a sugary mouth, looks busy, but do nothing; makes false promises and loots for his/her own services.

14. Substitution, replacement, changing candidates (DPT/PDP) is dirty politics. A loser cannot become a winner.

15. Curriculum relevant to our lifestyles, cultures, mindsets, etc. is good.  Microcosm -  if we work on knowing ourselves, improving ourselves, it will bring global effect. “Act locally, think globally.” So, far-reaching change begins from Bhutan or Bhutanized curriculum, not American syllabuses, etc. If not we will be torn between two worlds, we alienate from our own culture, history, language, people, etc. We live, physically, but we see ourselves through the eyes of others. We can relate our curriculum to the outside world. I think.

16. A test never fails or passes a candidate. It’s just a process of evaluation to improve your level.

17. Sometimes, it’s another way round, a system fails and a teacher leads.

18. How could a student fail after a year of rigorous teaching? This is a thing to think over. I agree, there would be some minor failures here and there on the way. But, we are determined to succeed. The day we stop thinking of students’ success is the day we should stop teaching.

19. A teacher doesn’t really teach, the students teach him (if a teacher knows). A guide, an advisor, a supporter, a director...etc.  Looking for new ways (creative) to teach/learn what students have already incorporated into their lives.

20. The basic education is forming/developing knowledge, mind, character, skills, being responsible, caring, being good, doing good, at least, a complete human.

21. Did you fall and break your heart? Did you cry and hate your life? Did you live a painful life and get hurt? Did you think of taking revenge? Did you have a memory sickness?

But never forget there is love, and you must prove it through your tears. Always remember there is hope, and always remember it is good in love. 

22. There is a common-ity in love, feeling, and human emotion. We are strangers but united by human concerns. We are bound by the bond of love, affection, understanding, and empathy. There is no unfeeling for the feeling of love. There is no boundary, no wall, no stranger, and no religion, nothing in love. It’s just a beautiful feeling, a beautiful and heavenly feeling. The universal fact, the love binds, and hates separate is small but too big to handle.

Love is money. The British person loves and vows to marry a Bhutanese girl. He crosses oceans and mountains to be with love, and he comes, and love is not money, I guess, love is love cannot be define, but…acho...we are related but separated by death.