A Constant Reminder

A stoic mind and a bleeding heart

Quite the contrast. Yet quite the emotion captured on the newest Mumford & Sons album. This has been on repeat all week. Over and over again. Day after day. And this line arrests me with each new listen of the track.

A stoic mind, one free of destructive emotion (or as some may consider it simply "emotion"). Detached. Logical. Free of bias. A systematic way of life. Universal reason, moral well-being, and so on.

A bleeding heart, sympathetic to those around you. Something that a stoic mind can not allow or even comprehend. One who feels. Compassion. Love. Caring. One who can achieve perfect stoicism cannot be sympathetic, because there is no emotion. One necessitates the other.

A perfect internal battle between the head and the heart.

But I believe that the contrast here is not solely between these two elements internally, but externally. This oil and water relationship creates a toxic combination when you bring together the two opposing natures in a relationship. A stoic mind will never properly partner a bleeding heart. It's a safe bet that wrong will be done. And while not intentional, both will be lost as a result will continue to travel oh so long.


REMINDER
by: Mumford & Sons
on: Babel


Don't let me darken your door
That's not what I came here for
No it's not what I came here for

And I won't hear you cry when I'm gone
I won't know if I'm doing you wrong
I never know if I'm doing you wrong

A constant reminder of where I can find her
Light that might give up the way
It's all that I'm asking for without her I'm lost
But my love don't' fade away

So watch the world tear us apart
A stoic mind and bleeding heart
You never see my bleeding heart

And your lights always shining on
And I been traveling oh so long
I been traveling oh so long

A constant reminder of where I can find her
Light that might give up the way
It's all that I'm asking for without her I'm lost
Oh my love don't' fade away
Oh my love don't fade away