Bow Tie Tuesday

[fflo]

Today's bow tie (which appeared earlier here) is peeking out at you, or you in at it, and could serve as an exercise for the OCD in exposure therapy, what with all its crookedidity and unkemptitude and ill-allignediosity.  Do you wish you could fix it?  Does it make you squirm, sweat, want to look away?  Do you wonder whether you can take it?  Is symmetry the way things have to be?  If you answer yes to any of these and/or a whole bunch of other questions, you too may be suffering from a category-whatever-letter-it-is difficulty of the Anxiety group variety.  Mental health professionals in your area may or may not be able to help, and, unfortunately, which way that tennis ball of fate falls doesn't depend entirely on whether you, like the proverbial light bulb, want to change.

However much you exhibit these characteristics, you may want to be careful how much you exhibit these characteristics.

Our advice is to take deep breaths.  Yeah, we advise that a lot, we know.  But it's our advice, a lot.  We figure you're going to be breathing anyway, or else no longer paying your bill, so it seems like a good starting point.

That app you used to breathe in and out with people around the world hasn't been updated for your iPhone's operating system, but oh well.  Are you so lazy that you're unwilling to count for yourself?  Okay maybe counting distracts you from the zoning out and going-second-nature part of the plan, we get that.  Fair enough.

You may not be happy with our current breathing app offerings, but we see you've found that infrared youtubery of "someone sleeping next to you" to supplement those Honest Guys recordings you've used so many nights.  Isn't it funny how your embarrassing recent Big Brother thing led you to that?  See?  It's not all bad, that embarrassment.  Also it passes the time, better than playing a little solitaire.  Anyway, we want you to remember that, app-wise and other-wise, when we close a door, we open a window.  And when we close a window, you need to be able to deal with that!  Our advice is to take deep breaths.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

Symmetry (The Way Things Have to Be)

Or say you're in a room
And there's a beautiful fire
And you're looking out the window
(At the snow and the winter streets below)
But your eyes keep returning to the fire

This is what I'm thinking
The reason your eyes keep returning to the fire
Is because it divides your sight
Into left and right, and dark and light and dark
Like a fine dividing wire

Here's another thing
That I noticed last night
When he kissed me over there
He usually kissed me over here, too
I must have known it in my heart
And with my inner sense of art
Because when I kiss him over there
I never kiss him over here, too

CHORUS:
    It's the way of the world
    People do it everywhere
    If you're going to do it over here
    Then usually they do it over there
    Symmetry is the way things have to be
    Symmetry is the way things have to be

Or say you're at a table
And you have your forks and knives
Do you move them around
'Til you get them just right?
(This is while you're talking to someone)

Or you work in a nightclub
And you notice that
Even though you try to seat everyone on one side of the room
They always spread themselves out evenly from this side to that
Like atoms in a model

[CHORUS]

Or say you're in an air show
And you're flying with two other pilots
And you want to do it right
Because you like to do it ri-ii-ight
And one guy is flying
At the tip of your left wing
And the other guy's off
Doing his own thing
Would it bother you?
It bothers me

[CHORUS]

You can't chop down a symmetry
    (repeat in variations)

-- Jane Siberry

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I love that song. I can't listen because YouTube doesn't work at Malletts Creek, but it's in my head.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

And symmetry is something that really appeals to me about rockets.