One year ago today, the masked and anonymous English band PRESIDENT released “Destroy Me,” a banger I fell in love with when they opened for Bad Omens in Dallas on March 19. The song would later appear on PRESIDENT’s debut EP, King Of Terrors.
F. Scott Fitzgerald evidently once said …
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
Perhaps an even lonelier moment in someone’s life, however, is the first time they really “see themselves” standing in the wake of their own self-destruction and realize they handed someone the scissors that cut their life into shreds. By the time they understand what they surrendered, it may be too late to start that story over again and keep those scissors in their own damn hands.
Been there. Done that.
You see, this is one of the best parts of gliding into my golden years with a tarnished but beautiful crown upon my head and a finger in the air as so many people, places, and things watch me walking away. It’s the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the WISDOM to know the difference.
So don’t go handing your heart or your scissors to someone who hasn’t earned the privilege and honor of holding them. Pressure can make a diamond, but discernment decides who gets close enough to cut it. Just sayin’.
