Switchfoot came out with a new hit single of the same title as this post. It speaks of the person's loss of hope in the things around him and in himself. It is a clear and realistic assessment of the world we live in-with all its failures in all the forms we have so trusted for so long- institutions, people we trust and depend, life as experienced supposedly by a life free from fear and oppression.
Indeed life can be full of mess, of unexpected interruptions and many failed dreams. We may believe temporarily pop psychologists and cultural gurus telling us it isnt our fault, but its the ignorance our conditions have foisted upon us or maybe its our genetic predispositions or something external to us. The artists in the song indeed says it correctly that even if dont blame ourselves the outcomes are still the same. There seems to be some form of chaos, disorder, sickness, sadness in our lives that no substitute can quaff.
When we look at the stars speaks of not focusing on ourselves and extremely meeting its persistent clamor for attention. Its looking at the bigger picture and man's place in the cosmos; its an attempt to view the Transcendent source of it all in our lives. It is about believing in things that were dismissed by our rationally driven and sylllogistically twisted mentality- its about the realm of Other Worldliness as something parallel to our lives or coexisting side by side.
It is about looking at the stars out there.
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