Nothing else matters

[Endlessly]

Okay, this has little to do with the kickass song by Metallica. I was just sitting here, in sort of a funk, and the song came on, and it made me think..

What does it take to get you to a place where nothing else matters?

Sometimes I get there in church... Sometimes, when I've drank an entire 12-pack of diet coke and not slept in 72 hours because the inspiration is coming faster than my fingers can type.. And this once, in Alabama, after I gave the guy I love his Christmas present and he just stood, holding me in his arms, for what felt like ten or fifteen minutes..

I've been trying to get there for a few weeks, and I keep banging my head against the ceiling. It makes me want to cry, sometimes, because it's just not happening..

Do you guys know what I mean? Do you get there? How?

 

[Juspar Emvan]

For Me?

Have you ever read the Hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy books? Do you remember how to fly? You fall, but get distracted at the last moment and forget to hit the floor.

That's how it is for me when nothing else matters - what caused it was a situation perfectly timed, and incapable of being captured or repeated.

Good luck though.

 

[Guest]

Nothing else matters but what?
I feel somewhat foolish admitting this but I'm not certain what you're talking about - although you seem to think it's a perfectly common happening.

 

[TN_Vixen]

Never?

it only exists in what you perceive. Period. Don't expect anyting to do it for you, hon. If the moment is perfect for you, and only you? Go for it.

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry that didn't make sense to me.

What the heck are you talking about?

 

[Endlessly]

Nothing else mattering but.. the moment. Whatever it is, that's the only thing that matters. You exist in it. It's like.. I don't know.. You're living off of it. Forget to eat or sleep, if it goes on that long.. Just being utterly consumed by one thing, whether passionately or contentedly..

Nothing else matters.

Gah. I suck at explaining this kind of thing, and I need to take a long shower and get offline-- I'm beginning to lose my facade of a winning personality.

 

[Guest]

Endlessly:
"Just being utterly consumed by one thing, whether passionately or contentedly.."
As an obsessive compulsive, you have managed to sum up most of my life. Personally, I'm so tired of the moment the only thing that seems more boring are the moments to come.

Oops, here comes another one.

 

[Mustang Sally]

I think you expressed that very nicely, Endlessly.

I guess I feel it when the pressure of a deadline is on me, when I can't stop whatever I'm doing (usually writing) until it's done. That's when I get in the zone and do my best work. Maybe that's why I'm such an incurable procrastinator.

I also feel it in moments of extreme calm and peacefulness. Sitting outside by myself on a warm day, not thinking, just enjoying the feel on the sun and breeze on my skin and in my hair. Relaxing into a loving embrace. Losing myself in a song. That kind of thing.

BUT it's not something I can produce on demand. It just happens unexpectedly.

 

[TN_Vixen]

I'm beginning to lose my facade of a winning personality. [/B]

Don't count on it. *smile*

 

[dancinvixen]

umm, I don't think I have hit that point ever. But I will say, I love Metallica, and that song, "Nothing Else Matters" has unofficially become my theme when I am dancing at work. Don't ask me why. The guys who come in end up actually sitting up to watch when they hear that song, the girls just like to hear it <and few like to see me dance to it> If you listen to the sng, you can actually hear sexuality running through it. But maybe that's just my personal feelings. When I dance to that song, it gets me going, ready for anything.

 

[Merelan]

I kno what you mean, and expressed so perfectly. May I steal that?
Sally is right. You cannot create it, they just happen. Try to hard and they run.
Be still and know....
In the quiet of my heart I hear him speak...

 

[Guest]

a moment

 

[~justin]

Driving while listening to the right music. Or even being driven. A perfect case in point is when I was busing to the airport last November to spend a weekend with, uh, well... yeah. Anyway, the coach is moving through the city and I'm listening to Kid A. It made the whole world feel as ethereal as the music, and each moment of each song lingered with me.

There are other examples, of course, but that's the first one that came to mind.

 

[Kasha]

Nothing Else Matters....well just thinking of the song makes me think of when my husband and I were teenagers..(I am not that old just 25)..anyhow we were 15 and just dating and we were having to seperate so that I could live in Texas and he could stay in California. Well he wrote me a letter that I recieved right after i got home to TX...and in the letter he wrote the words to that song.. To us nothing else mattered but staying together and making our relationship work. the song is a bit sad but i love the words...and I will always remember that time when I hear that song...but just so ya'll know all ended well..been together 8 years and married the last 2.... " So close not matter how far, couldn't be much more from the heart...forever trust in who we are..and nothing else matters"

 

[livin_simple]

When Nothing Else Matters - The Secret of Life

Those moments are the moments that make the effort getting there worthwhile. I believe those moments are the secret of the people who are doing what they enjoy doing, not just doing a job.

I've found that I can best capture that fleeting feeling during the moments each morning between wakefulness and sleep.

Like I said, the secret of people who enjoy what they're doing.