locked in our vaults.

i have decided to boycott capitalization on my blog for no good reason. sorry all you english majors and blogspot spell check, but this is how i roll from now on.

anyway, i was listening to "colors" by amos lee the other day and there is a part of the song where i have no idea what the lyrics say but pretend to know and sing them anyway. they sound right until you actually take the time to look them up. once you do, you find out you were not even close! come on y'all know what i am talking about. i am sure there is a song you are singing right now that isn't even close to being right! haha.

with that having been said, i looked up this mystery verse and found it to be profoundly inspiring to write about. the verse goes, "i know we all, we all got our faults. we get... locked in our vaults and we stay".

i was thinking about how it is really hard to keep good friends these days because we are all simply to busy to care about anything or anyone else other than numero uno. we tend to live in such a me first mindset that it often times alienates those who are close to us and want to spend time with us. in the age of myspace, facebook, blogspot (haha), and twitter; we just assume that casual posts, updates, comments, and tweets will replace real life human interaction just fine. i feel like for me personally it has caused me to feel quite distant from many good friendships i used to value.

the problem is that we are all becoming so accustomed to just living out our digital lives that we are missing out on real life. i plan on doing my best to reverse this trend and rekindle my relationships with friends and family. i hope they see the value as well and follow suit.

.g.