CSotD: The first cut is the deepest
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I've often praised "Cul de Sac" because of Richard Thompson's ability to recreate what it was like to be 5 years old.
Let us now praise "Watch Your Head" because of Cory Thomas's ability to recreate what it was like to be 19 years old.
Most days, that makes for some funny stuff. I can look back and recognize all his characters and their foibles and foolishness and insecurities, and relate it to myself and the people around me in those days.
But sometimes that accuracy can make the cut go a little deep.
So here is Kevin, who is in a seemingly ideal, stable relationship with a bright, attractive, creative woman who cherishes and supports him, and off he drifts … borne aloft on wings of what is, to anyone else, shockingly transparently flimsy self-justification and utter lack of introspection or consideration … and I'm having flashbacks of myself at 19.
I have a sort of fantasy that, when you die, you get to Heaven and God says, "Before you enter, you are going to go back to Earth and re-live one year in your life. You can choose any 12-month period, but you can't skip anything within that time. Ups and downs, you have to re-experience them all. So, now, choose a starting date."
And reliving a 12-month period when you were 19 or 20 would certainly furnish the most exhilirating, exciting high points, but I can't find a 12-month period in my life at that time which would not also provide such spectacularly painful low points that it would be worth going through again.
The only way I could go through 19 again would be if I were guaranteed to have the same blinders of self-interest, insensitivity and just plain bad judgment.
Which suggests that maybe I've got it backwards. Maybe, when you arrive at the gates of Hell, the devil begins your torment by sending you back for one more youthful year, only this time, you have to go through it all with the knowledge of what you're doing.
I realize none of this sounds like a good reason to start reading "Watch Your Head," but then, too, what's the point in hitting "play" on this video?
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