I must admit to having recently been pondering the possible interpretations of the song by Orianthi “According to you”.
At first glance it seems to be the typical break up slash new boyfriend type song. But then you apply your mind to the lyrics a little bit and dig a little bit deeper and start getting some really rather awkward questions arising. Like should this really be what our teenagers listen to??
If I apply that song to my situation, I could easily say that my husband is the “you” in the song. As I have mentioned in previous blogs it really seems to me that he hates me. Despises, even. And that is pretty much what the song is saying, from what I understand. It’s saying that the person you are with seems to dislike you, but the new guy on the block, well according to him the sun shines out of your bum!! Look, if you are still worried about the “you” – why is there a “him”? Is the song about affairs necessarily? I’m not sure. But it seems to be. Also I think it says a lot about the person “singing” it – at first I thought, yes, I can relate to that. My husband thinks I’m horrid. Then I started thinking about past boyfriends. And past friends. And I started to think that in the beginning of the relationship my husband though I was awesome too. So perhaps the whole song, instead of about being about what YOU think and what HE thinks, is actually about the common denominator. ME. Perhaps I am the problem. Perhaps, in the beginning of a relationship it is easy to fool someone into thinking you are basically a nice person. Perhaps after a while they see through all that. So perhaps they do think you are stupid on occasion but they are still with you because they love you despite it. The new guy on the block? Well, maybe he will learn to love you. But once he has seen you, warts and all, the way the “you” in the song has seen you, he may not. So when the song asks “Everything is opposite, I don’t feel like stopping it, baby tell me what I got to loose?” I think the answer there is true love. Which is somebody who actually loves you DESPITE knowing all your weaknesses.
In other news ….
I decided this morning that today would be the day that I went for a bicycle ride. Now my husband has an old mountain bike tucked away in the garage. So I duly took it out the garage, sprayed it down with the hose pipe to get rid of all the spider webs, (shame, those poor spiders are now going to have to find new homes!!) sprayed it with an entire tin of Q20 so it wouldn’t rust after being sprayed with a hose pipe (yes, I am displaying my ignorance here!!), attempted to switch on my husbands air pump compressor thingy, couldn’t find the on button, aborted attempt in favour of a hand pump and duly pumped the tyres, after first spending a good deal of time doing it completely incorrectly. Nevertheless, I then thought I was ready to get on, only to discover that my husband, whose legs are a great deal shorter than mine, for some reason had set the seat to its highest possible setting. So high in fact that I could not reach the pedals. So I battled and I looked and I fiddled and I couldn’t figure out no matter how hard I tried how to lower the seat. I then proceeded to phone my husband to ask him, but got shouted at for daring to phone him (do I ever learn??). So I texted a friend who said I should google it and it turned out to be a little lever – so easily sorted and off I went on my first cycle in probably 20 years.
I have now come to the following conclusions regarding cycling:
1- It’s a darn side easier than jogging – in fact, its probably something I could do relatively easily, given a bit of practice and training;
2- It’s best to have mountain bike tyres because even with the most considerate of vehicles you sometimes end up off the road;
3- If you put the seat up and put your full weight on it and it falls down, only for you to do the same again, and again, and again, you have done something wrong. Figure it out.
4- My neck and shoulders get sore – but if I lower the seat my legs get all crampy. I’m going to attempt to raise the handle bars for the next time …. see what happens.
5- The water bottle tied to the bicycle is there for a reason. Use it. Fill it with liquid. After 15 minutes I was wishing I had, despite my tendency of getting cramps if I consume liquids during exercise.
6- Start with the uphills if possible. I started downhill and had to ride uphill back home – eish!!
7- Gears are a mystery. Anyone with any advice for a beginner – your comments will be most welcome. I put my bicycle on its middle gear and left it their for the duration of the cycle.
8- 5 minutes per kilometre average speed … probably really slow for anyone who cycles regularly but it’s a start.
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