Saturday, January 17, 2009

Fix You

The moments I live for are those out-of-body experiences where everything around you melts together save for the one activity, image, or sound you are focusing on. It is that moment when you believe you are on a movie screen in slow motion with the orchestra in a crescendo and the timpanis are pounding to the beat of your heart.

At select Griffins hockey games (my recent job), if there were flag kids, the two mini mites would skate onto the ice, attempting to wave the flags as they drug on the ice. The arena, almost full with 7,000 people would go dark with one red light in the tunnel. The instrumental measures of Fix You by Coldplay played through the speakers and at this moment, I would always stand by a pillar, leaning my head against it and feeling infinite.

It was the power ringing through the arena with the thousands of people cheering but being drowned out by one red light and one beautiful song. I could exaggerate this moment, but it happened. . .on more than one occasion.

This is what life is made of.

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