JASON B. ROSENTHAL, ‘MY WIFE SAID YOU MAY WANT TO MARRY ME’
Knowing the story is ending soon makes every word on those final pages that much more important, after all.
It became a creative outlet in an otherwise dark time, something I could do when it felt as if there were so many things I couldn’t, no matter how desperately I wanted to.
What a gift to have had these moments, and why shouldn’t the rest of us have them now, while we are still healthy? What are we waiting for? How arrogant of us believe there will always be “more time.”
Then again, no matter how realistically prepared you think you are, no matter how many times you’ve played out that inevitable moments in your mind to brace yourself, it turns out that there’s no such thing as “ready.”
Loss has emotional and physical components that one has no control over.
Music always brought me to a specific moment in time, a memory, an experience that became a significant part of my life.
Live music has always being something I felt deep passion for. Seeing a good band perform live made my soul feel deeply, made my body move to the beat, and allowed me to get lost and separate from the depths of grief, except when I turned toward those feelings, to deeply emote in a way only live music allows you to do.