Shuffle Synchronicities: Volume 1 - #353

"Closer" by The Chainsmokers, Halsey - 01/13/22

"Closer" by The Chainsmokers, Halsey

This was one of the most popular songs of 2016, and perhaps of all time.

On the March-25-dated chart, “Closer” tied LeAnn Rimes’ 32-week record for “How Do I Live” from 1997 of being in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10.

It’s a song about a former couple who re-meet years later.

And hook-up again.

Both perhaps not learning their lesson with the anthemic line:

We ain’t ever getting older

But also perhaps enjoying the young-at-heart freedom of the moment:

We ain’t ever getting older

It feels a bit like a memoiristic synchronicity, because I continue to get ‘closer’ to the end of the one-year mark of this project.

One year was the length I had promised myself and you all to write a post daily.

I’m excited to be ‘close’ to the end.

To take a break.

And to try some new projects.

But I’ve also been looking through and selecting posts, putting them into a document.

In order to create an abridged book, which I’ve mentioned:

Shuffle Synchronicities: Selections from the Substack

It’s been interesting noticing what I noticed, sort of noticed, and didn’t notice at the time.

For instance, during a date with the children’s TV writer who had won an Emmy, the song “Modern Kicks” by The Exploding Hearts was shuffled-to here.

It had the lyrics:

You wanna give give give but I don't wanna take
Getting modern kicks

Which ended up summing up our dating experience, even I didn’t want to fully notice it at the time.

And then that same song was shuffled-to again when I started up a new romance with the therapist woman here.

Then at the end of that post, “Sitting in Limbo” by Jerry Garcia, came up

…after the popular post about going to the James Blake concert with the therapist and our hook-up after here and our ending of our dating after our next date here and here…

A version of that Jerry Garcia song “Sitting in Limbo” then became the shuffled-to-song the day after the date with the trans woman here.

So, in a way, the three most significant IRL dating experiences of the year of posts, besides perhaps this new dating experience with the Comedy Gogo Dance Teacher, were all connected.

With meaning that I might have missed even more if I wasn’t writing about them on the Substack.

A friend of mine mentioned something about this, she said:

“I've kept a journal all my life and it’s always fun to look back and see threads that appear again and again”.

So with only 12 more daily posts left to be exact.

I wonder what it will be like to stop.

And also if there’s something invaluable about continuing daily.

And I-I-I can't stop
No, I-I-I can't stop

Something perhaps about learning how to mature while also remaining young at heart.

We ain’t ever getting older

Something perhaps about “How Do I Live” as LeAnn Rimes might sing.

Okay, that’s the three hundred and fifty-third Shuffle Synchronicities.