Music

You know when you ask someone the ever-important, getting to know them, question of "so, like what kind of music do you, uh, like?" And then they respond with, "well, I like everything." For me, this tells me one thing - we aren't gonna be close friends. Well, that's not necessarily true - it means that the odds of us being close friends are slim to none. Or, about one in a million...not bad odds some may say. The reason why these odds are so dismal? You may ask...well friends, the odds are so catastrophically small because when someone responds the question of what kind of music they like with, "everything," it means they don't actually like it. In fact, it probably means they just like to party. This individual's life would be fine without the existence of music. There are exceptions to this rule, yes. Very very few, but there are some out there. I'm fairly certain anyways...
I recently had a discussion with someone I run into around town from time to time. We met on the opposite side of the country through a bizarre sequence of events known, primarily, as "life." It goes by other names and aliases to protect it's identity but we all know whats under the cape. Anyways, somehow we began discussing how we both went to Christian Colleges and that because of this fact she now despises "Christian culture" and no longer believes Christianity is legitimate. We disagreed on a few points here and there throughout the convo...I empathized with many of her disappointments and being generally disillusioned by religion in general. The main thing we connected with though, bringing us back to the beginning of this entry, was music. The odds are supposed to be high we are gonna be friends right? She showed me one of her favorite songs by "Fink," the name of the track was "Blueberry Pancakes." One of the lines the singer utters are the words, "The Beauty of what was, isn't what won't be..." Strange sounding at first, eh? Ironically, this girl used to be a Christian. Moreover, people used to live in complete harmony with God. "The beauty of what was, isn't what won't be..." Essentially, what was could, and will, "be" once more.