It's been a good 6 weeks since my last post, now don't go quote me on that because I'm not entirely sure. But it's been pretty wild.
I mean really wild.
Exams are coming up and the end of the year is kind of upon us, so I thought may as well think things through now eh?
I just wanted to start this post by introducing you to this cool tree in front of the Japanese House at Monash University. It's quite large, and it towers over the car-park I walked through almost the whole of this year. I never gave it much attention except when it changed. From green to brown, from brown to empty and back to green. It was kind of really cool, watching it change, over and over. And every time it changed it was like a little marker, like I could kind of remember what position I was last time it changed.
You know the feeling when your walking on a long track, and then you look back and your surprised with how far you have come? That feeling overwhelmed me nearly every single time. But something did kind of hit me then, that when you look back over a certain time, you don't remember everyday, which is kind of scary.
I guess you only remember the significant days you have. Theres no point in remembering what you had for breakfast 3 months ago, right?
Let's put it this way, the significant days you have, being the most memorable, make a noticeable impact on you in some way. And these are the days that when you see that tree change, that flash before your eyes when you look back.
I can kind of say, we measure ourselves in significant days.
So let me take you back, say 6 weeks. It was the first week of the holidays, and I had one of the guys from the band over, and we were jamming, all well and good. We had a gig lined up for the next night and we were pumped for band prac the next day.
It was a pretty awesome feeling.
We slept late as usual, putting down our guitars, and woke up a couple of hours before band practice started. Had lunch, cleaned out the garage and waited for the rest of our people to come. After that, we had a massive practice, writing basically one full song. Which is an awesome song by the way. Anyway, night came and we got into the van and got driven to the Venue. It's was a pretty average gig, the crowd were really flat but our little 'risk tonight following' came and made it worthwhile.
So we played our music, which is the most satisfying feeling.
Well, getting to the point, I remember being in the car on the way back and thinking to myself:
'I could do this for the rest of my life.'
So in saying that, it was a significant day.
In the days that followed I was incredibly overwhelmed with that feeling, the feeling of determination or even accomplishment. It provided a little snapshot of how I wouldn't mind spending the rest of my life, and for that reason it was significant.
So looking at the tree, first week of school, it's like everything flashed before me, and it was kind of a consolidation, of a little part of me.
That was really important,
"I'm on my feet, I'm on the floor, I'm good to go."
-Banu.
