Does there exist this idea that people hold one thing in such high a light that no one else can break the connection between any given person and their one thing? I'm trying to think of a better word than 'thing' but it really could be anything.
I don't mean the connection between two people. Such connections can certainly be strong, but also broken. These are also shared among two people. What I'm hoping to find holds true for an individual person, and their relationship with this one thing cannot be altered by another person.
For me, and if you've read any decent number of my blog posts (or know anything about me), it's the connection I have with The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place. It's gotten to the point where I'm past thinking I need to link to previous blog posts to show how much that album means to me, and that's saying a lot.
It's more than a musical connection. Sure, I know what notes to expect and I could probably hum my way through the entire album without listening to it. But it's not about that. The 43 minutes I spend listening to that album are 43 minutes where I feel grounded, and feel my place in the universe, however small it may be.
My best guess is that for a majority of people, this 'one thing' is likely their religion. Their belief in a capital-g God (or another religion's applicable equivalent) isn't something that will be changed by another person. This connection is something that you'll always have with you, almost like it's riding shotgun to your entire life - sometimes dormant, other times incredibly prevalent and relevant.
I'm not done with this idea. As an aside, I should really start keeping track of these personal-life principles I seem to be collecting. In fact, I might have already tried that idea...I would say that this blog post is as close as I've come to doing so. (For the record, the second principle in that blog post is now called the Face Value Theory, where after about two years we really see what the true (face) value of someone really is.)
Only because of the song title, here's "One Thing" by Finger Eleven. Thanks for reading.
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