and the universe said i love you
sometimes a video or piece of media come at just the right time, just the right mood, for it to hit in just the right way.
enter this video by luvstarkei. i've been watching their videos on minecraft for a few weeks now and they've been really resonating with me. their channel focuses a lot on old web and slowing down and looking at the bigger picture.
this particular video is an interpretation of the minecraft end poem. this poem already made me feel a lot of things, but the way luvstar is able to break it down into something that felt so new and raw to me- well... it hit me at just the time i needed it. honestly, i don't know if it could have hit me at any time that would have been wrong- but something about today made me feel like i was hearing this exactly when i needed to.
i highly recommend watching the video yourself, so i refuse to go into much detail, but i do want to say that the perspective it brought me today was so important to me. being able to take these vast, incomprehensible ideas the universe brings us and form it into a shape that is digestible is... truly a gift.
now i'm listening to this album by tottomori, which coincidentally reminds me of the music in minecraft. and i'm so thankful for so many things right now.
im grateful for minecraft. that this little game brings so much peace. that it provides a second home to me, one that waits for me to come back to it with open arms. a game that allows me to create, to feel, and to dream.
im grateful for music. again, bringing me peace. real, human music. music someone made with intention, with passion, and with pride.
im grateful for the web. where we can share these ideas we have, describe the shape the universe has in our own minds. where we can connect and feel and become something larger.
im grateful for humans. thankful that i'm not alone in all this. that we truly are all in this together.
im grateful to be alive.
i just really have so many thoughts and feelings right now that even trying to describe them feels impossible. this blog post isn't meant to be anything but me trying to process the emotions in me right now, document them so that i might feel them more regularly.
i'm happy.