Sometimes it takes meeting
someone else to discover who you are.
While in New York I met an Australian girl who had come to the US as her son was in need of medical treatment. Long stays in the hospital meant that she needed one thing that makes us all feel better: music! She had left most of her CD’s in Australia and asked me to download some Evanescence. At this stage I had a few of their songs and really liked them but when Mel asked me to download the whole album I was blown away by what I heard. It was almost as if Amy (the lead singer of the band) had been stalking my life and secretly using what she saw to write beautiful music.
Listening more to their music I understood so many things I didn’t know for so long. Mel and I bonded over our love of music and discovered we were very similar to each other from the way we grew up to different things we thought about life. Mel being a Goth was well in touch with her dark side, where as I was continuingly trying to fight it away. She taught me how you can know both.
One summer her son asked me
to join them visiting another Australian family they knew who lived in Long Island. When I asked where they lived I nearly died
when they said the name of the town I used to live in with my ex and his
family. But when a baby faced five year
old asks you, no matter how scared you are of bumping into your ex you can’t
say no! After being welcomed to the
house by Lynn and her husband the most serious business was put in front of me:
did I like my margaritas with salt or with sugar?! I liked this family immediately and felt sad
I didn’t know they were there when I was living in the town.
Lynn was an amazing personality and the fact she liked to make margaritas was even better. Many summer weekends I would make my way out to the island with Mel and her son and once he was tucked up sleeping in bed we would sit on the porch sipping margaritas with the fireflies buzzing around us in the evening night sky. We were three Aussie girls who all randomly ended up in New York for many different reasons, varying in age and experience. But in those moments it didn’t matter we were all there to ponder the most difficult questions in life together and Mel and I could escape from the reality of NY if only for two days.
I remember there were a family of racoons who lived under her porch and we would wait silently sometimes for them to run under our table to the other side and squeal in delight at seeing native American wildlife… the margaritas could have also helped in this excitement. Once or twice we left Lynn’s husband at home to look after the children and headed for dinner or a drink in town, me hiding precariously behind poles and large pot plants so I wouldn’t see my ex – funnily enough not once when there did I ever see him (or maybe I was just that good at hiding!).
From discovering Evanescence I found other bands who also spoke to me, this band being one of them. I remember also giving the CD to my cousin who loved this song Butterfly so much she would play it over and over again. When she and her then boyfriend visited me in New York and I put this CD on he looked at me and said ‘So you’re the reason I have to listen to this song all the time’... I laughed so much!
Mel is sort of like my lost sister who made me resolve a wonder I had held inside for a long time. She and I get each other so easily and she is almost like a sister to me. I miss being away from her but the one thing that brought us together in the first place continues to help us stay together, every time I hear Evanescence or she does we text each other and for that moment it’s like we are both back there with each other.
Day 18: I wish I was a butterfly
Bought: 5 years ago
Price Range: $29.00
From: H & M New York
What I like about this dress: I LOVE the many different colours of butterflies and the way they stand out against the black
Tag Info: Made in China, Divide, 100% Viscose
Photo Credit: SCondon
While in New York I met an Australian girl who had come to the US as her son was in need of medical treatment. Long stays in the hospital meant that she needed one thing that makes us all feel better: music! She had left most of her CD’s in Australia and asked me to download some Evanescence. At this stage I had a few of their songs and really liked them but when Mel asked me to download the whole album I was blown away by what I heard. It was almost as if Amy (the lead singer of the band) had been stalking my life and secretly using what she saw to write beautiful music.
Listening more to their music I understood so many things I didn’t know for so long. Mel and I bonded over our love of music and discovered we were very similar to each other from the way we grew up to different things we thought about life. Mel being a Goth was well in touch with her dark side, where as I was continuingly trying to fight it away. She taught me how you can know both.
Lynn was an amazing personality and the fact she liked to make margaritas was even better. Many summer weekends I would make my way out to the island with Mel and her son and once he was tucked up sleeping in bed we would sit on the porch sipping margaritas with the fireflies buzzing around us in the evening night sky. We were three Aussie girls who all randomly ended up in New York for many different reasons, varying in age and experience. But in those moments it didn’t matter we were all there to ponder the most difficult questions in life together and Mel and I could escape from the reality of NY if only for two days.
I remember there were a family of racoons who lived under her porch and we would wait silently sometimes for them to run under our table to the other side and squeal in delight at seeing native American wildlife… the margaritas could have also helped in this excitement. Once or twice we left Lynn’s husband at home to look after the children and headed for dinner or a drink in town, me hiding precariously behind poles and large pot plants so I wouldn’t see my ex – funnily enough not once when there did I ever see him (or maybe I was just that good at hiding!).
From discovering Evanescence I found other bands who also spoke to me, this band being one of them. I remember also giving the CD to my cousin who loved this song Butterfly so much she would play it over and over again. When she and her then boyfriend visited me in New York and I put this CD on he looked at me and said ‘So you’re the reason I have to listen to this song all the time’... I laughed so much!
Mel is sort of like my lost sister who made me resolve a wonder I had held inside for a long time. She and I get each other so easily and she is almost like a sister to me. I miss being away from her but the one thing that brought us together in the first place continues to help us stay together, every time I hear Evanescence or she does we text each other and for that moment it’s like we are both back there with each other.
Day 18: I wish I was a butterfly
Bought: 5 years ago
Price Range: $29.00
From: H & M New York
What I like about this dress: I LOVE the many different colours of butterflies and the way they stand out against the black
Tag Info: Made in China, Divide, 100% Viscose
Photo Credit: SCondon
It is a pretty dress. Leggings look alright with it to.
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