A collection of unrelated thoughts

Wirklich. On a scale of 1 to 10, how unrelated are these thoughts?

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I was googling for ideas when I thought of a flight safety video I watched. I feel like people don't know this enough, which is why I'm writing about it.

• Only inflating your life vest outside the aircraft (never inside, which you won't be able to exit the craft if water enters).

  • This isn't something I was particularly aware of, and I think I could easily inflate the vest inside the aircraft under panic, and was not sufficiently informed.

• Counting the number of rows of seats to your nearest exit.

  • I have never done this yet, and will try to if I fly in the future. I read that in the case of smoke, you won't be able to see and counting will come in handy.

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One of my favorite songs, Wolves Without Teeth, by the artist Of Monsters and Men, reminds me of the literature classic Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte.

Now I know the song meaning has nothing to literally do with romance, which is how some people interpret the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. Nevertheless, the song lyrics does deal with obsession and intertwinement to some degree.

For instance [red = song lyrics, blue = lines from the book],

"I can see through you, we are the same. It's perfectly strange, you run in my veins. (Of Monsters and Men)"

"Nelly, I AM Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. (Brönte 104) " - Catherine Earnshaw

In the song, the "narrator" declares him/her/itself as close to the protagonist ("you") as if they were the same person, insinuating a deeper connection than merely a "chase" of wolves. As Catherine describes herself as "am Heathcliff", there are many similarities between her relationship with Heathcliff and the relationship described in the song.

Another instance,

"I breathe what is yours, you breathe what is mine. You hover like a hummingbird, haunt me in my sleep. (Of Monsters and Men)"

"Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you--haunt me, then! (Brönte 213)" - Heathcliff

The similarities between these two lines is apparent through the word "haunt", literally, almost like an echo where the lyrics describe's Catherine perspective, and the book is Heathcliff's response. Of course, that is a further stretch. Whilst unrelated, when I listen to this song, I always hear "You haunt me like a hummingbird", instead of hover.

I feel like it's difficult to exactly describe the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff, which is why the connection above may seem a bit vague.

[Quotations for Wuthering Heights are completed in accordance to the Free Ebook at Planet EBook.com .]

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Sometimes I have recurring thoughts like - "What if it was me?" "What if it worked out?" "If I had done [blank], would it have worked?"

It's not exactly disappointment, but it washes you more like waves of realization. But realization of what, you're never certain. It's like a simple "Oh". It's not sadness because you know desire and/or effort could never equate possession, but neither can you find any sort of permanent reassurance. Maybe that's just the feeling of acceptance.

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Lastly, just a picture of a Tim drawing I submitted for the flag competition for orientation.

The feet is a bit funky (and low-key the way I drew makes Tim look funny), but it's okay.

Bis bald (See you soon)!