Grey (1220 hits)
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Submitted by K.M (View user info) at 2004-06-23 22:56:28 EDT
Click! Mmm
Beep Beep Beep, Boop. Boop.
Click! Mmm
Beep Beep Beep, Boop. Boop.
Everything's a symphony. It's difficult to describe one that carries more weight, more solemn intensity, than one playing in the critical care ward of a hospital. One syllable, one moment, one man, one life. That's how I would describe this situation. Grey people, grey skies, grey dreams, grey lives. That's how I would describe this place.
This whole thing is grey, and it affects us.
Everybody lives in a grey place at some point in their lives. It's as inevitable as life and death themselves. However, these monotonous periods differ between one person and the next, in both length and context.
One person loses something of themselves in a relationship gone terribly wrong. Another may be a family man, who still feels that something is missing in his life. Or, a person could wallow in the depths of alcoholism for years, before returning to a world of color. Or, a girl could cease to find substance in her life, and withdraw from it altogether into a grey refuge.
Still another, could receive a phone call, and be informed that his father has been admitted to critical care because his kidneys, liver, and heart suddenly failed, allowing toxins to enter his bloodstream unmitigated. Furthermore, a device had been hurriedly placed in his chest cavity to assist his struggling heart,
"...which is currently operating at 5% efficiency."
All of these places, are Grey Places. Some point in your life that remains, for all eternity, swirling in some grey, sick aura, never to be altered. These are very real places, and some part of you will always remain there.
Each of these places, and all of these people and many more, will play themselves out to some perennial soundtrack. After all, noises are just as adept at instilling irrevocable memories as any particular feeling. They can be just as symbolic as any image. We all have our own symphony; forever playing a tune to our lives, and at times, these noises are as sickening and disturbing as any other possible external stimulant.
The release of pent up, chemically pressured air, from a bottle. The snort of a line of cocaine entering a nasal cavity. The orgasmic sigh following a shot of heroin to the bloodstream. The charged, intrinsic hum of inexpressible frustration, hatred, or insecurity. The clinical, plinking arrangement of medical equipment, driving home the fact of what's at stake.
Each human life is some profound sonata, each differing so fantastically, but at the same time, so perfectly in tune with one another that it becomes difficult to distinguish between one of them and the next.
Because there's color, and then there's just fucking Grey.
It's strange, how suddenly it happens. It's as if somebody had flipped a switch, and a vacuum descends over a person's entire life. The world freezes on its axis, and everything is indiscriminately covered in some thick grey sediment, rendering each and every utilitarian human abstraction absolutely non essential, and not worth the time.
People and things appear as diluted silhouettes behind translucent grey curtains. Movements are orchestrated, pre-ordained gyrations, expressed to the rhythmic flow of terrible and sinister sounds, ebbing through grey ether and registering in the eardrum of an unbelievably frightened human being.
Click! Mmm
Fear, Love. Health, Sickness. Hope, Despair. These words take on an entirely new meaning. The actually take on meaning. They cease to be abstractions, or vessels, crafted by man in order to communicate, secondhand, or "make a point". They are no longer empty symbols, but tangibles, all but crushing you under the weight of their sheer, mind bending significance.
Beep Beep Beep
Grey is the perfect and true color of reality, if you were to view it as a totality instead of separates. And this reality, it marches inexorably onwards, never hesitating in the slightest for the intricately spun attachments of conceited and sentimental animals.
Despite how much you wish it would.
User Reviews
Submitted by cshape (user info) at 2004-07-22 01:49:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
One of the best things I've read on this site.
Very well expressed.
Submitted by RouteTwo (user info) at 2004-07-19 17:14:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
one of the truest and best things i've ever read. keep it up. it's a shame this doesn't get on most heated.
Submitted by Random B at 2004-07-19 16:53:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice very nice!
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2004-07-19 16:43:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-06-24 07:43:19 (#)
Ranking: 2
Great post.
At first glance, I thought that the title was 'Ghey' instead of Grey.
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me too!
Submitted by Scott_James (user info) at 2004-07-19 16:41:42 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by Murphy1844 (user info) at 2004-07-19 16:39:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Fear, Love. Health, Sickness. Hope, Despair. These words take on an entirely new meaning. The actually take on meaning. They cease to be abstractions, or vessels, crafted by man in order to communicate, secondhand, or "make a point". They are no longer empty symbols, but tangibles, all but crushing you under the weight of their sheer, mind bending significance."
Brilliant.
Murphy
Submitted by BuckeyesTHEGAME (user info) at 2004-07-13 12:53:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
KM, I'm seriously wondering what this comment is all about:
"You seem to be on a real fuckin' kick with this black vs white shit, lately."
Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? That was the only article I've posted that talks about race.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2004-07-05 12:05:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is impressive stuff, liked it a lot.
Submitted by someone (user info) at 2004-07-05 11:47:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
this is really good. Its amazing how stuff like this floats under the radar, while the biggest bunch of shit climbs the most heated..
Submitted by K.M (user info) at 2004-06-25 19:57:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Because I'm Canadian.
It's sort of an English/American mutt.
Submitted by drstrangedhruv (user info) at 2004-06-25 17:14:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Why did you spell 'grey' the English way, and 'color' the American way?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-06-24 07:43:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Great post.
At first glance, I thought that the title was 'Ghey' instead of Grey.
Submitted by vex (user info) at 2004-06-24 03:54:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Very.
Submitted by Doom3 (user info) at 2004-06-23 23:59:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Damn that is good.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-06-23 23:35:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by antluvdog (user info) at 2004-06-23 23:33:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Deep. Good job.