Woman

21.30 | Over the past couples of years I have become a sucker for the orchestra strings in music. You know, violins, cellos, and the like. I think it is beautiful when they come together and play.

Lately I've told a lot of people that it takes me five minutes to get a crush on a girl and that is true but I don't know why or how that happens. It's almost the same thing that Donald Miller describes in "Blue Like Jazz." Of course, this doesn't happen all the time but sometimes within the first couple of minutes I can imagine something.

The band Copeland would say that "I'm A Sucker For A Kind Word" and that is true. Usually if a woman compliments me I'll be impressed and therefore "fall in love" with them. Copeland also says that "Love Is A Fast Song" and I don't agree with that.

I think love is slow and beautiful just like string music is slow and beautiful. I don't think love is a fast song, rather I think it is a beautiful composition with excitement, mystery, and slow-dancing.

I talked to a friend about falling in love. I told him how I fell into a trap of believing the movies. That in the span of a couple hours or days I would fall in love with a gorgeous girl, sweep her off her feet, and ride off into the sunset. He told me we all wish it would happen like the movies. He told me not to freak out about my non-movie love life. He told me to take a step back and stop being afraid.

I don't know what woman are in this string orchestra analogy. Woman are either the strings, the people that play the strings, maybe the conductor, or maybe something else but when I thought of this idea in the car I imagined this blog as having the title "Woman" so there ya go.

My friend who rarely reads this blog has convinced herself that every word I write in this blog is about some certain someone somewhere that I am in love with. Even when I try to tell her how not all of them are about woman she says to me, "No Matt, you can only write about woman, it's always about a woman." I don't know if she is joking or if she is serious.

When I hear some violin music that I like it is inspiring. When I got the idea for this blog I was listening to some OneRepublic and that type of music was playing. I was driving back to Bethel, this music was beautiful and it was one of those moments where thoughts come so slowly and so basic and then you just expand on that thought.

Then the song ends, but the thoughts continue...