Take me back when our world was one block wide I dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried, just two kids you and I.
A quintessential love story captured in a song. Growing up neighbors, two kids find love and grow old together. There is such a sweetness to this song that captures these two people in love and the phases of life they share. Childhood innocence when your whole world is just one block wide. Seeing something more than just friendship in someone, the realization that you want to build a life with them. And the accomplishment of that goal when you are 87 and 89, still in love and living in the life you have built. It’s got all the pieces of this idyllic life story.
It makes me feel so happy and kind of sad at the same time. It’s just a bird eye view of a relationship, a love that lasts told in 3 minutes and 33 seconds. It’s something people hope for and pray for, but we live in the zoomed in reality of a daily life with intimate challenges to face, and if we compare our story too closely to this story we might feel like we fell short in some way.
I was raised in these stories, bird-eye views of ancestors that were happily married 58 years, with 7 beautiful children all successful in their own marriages and families. Showing the perfect family photos felt important, and they also felt real to me. I truly thought I would grow up and find this perfect marriage and have this perfect family and it would just happen because it is what has always happened. And I grew up and found my husband who is pretty perfect, but we struggled for years with infertility trying to get these perfect children to us. And while I did have these pretty perfect children I found myself with chronic illness as they toddled around. How was I suppose to take care of a baby who needed me for everything when I was in so much pain on a daily basis. But I showed up in the world showing a perfect family, because that’s what we were suppose to do. In my adulthood I have learned that this perfect facade is simply a facade, and while I felt like I should have known this much sooner, how and when should I have come to this conclusion on my own?
Turns out everyone had miscarriages, or postpartum depression, or infertility, or loss, or illness. All of these perfect worlds are built on real lives with a vast array of experiences, and sometimes I wish we would be more open to sharing all of life, not just the perfect versions.
That being said I love this song. Sometimes in life you just need to be allowed to go to a dreamland of simple love, a lifetime love. A cute beautiful story that shows us that two kids can make a beautiful world.
Take me home where we met so many years before, we'll rock our babies on that very front porch.
I love Taylor Swift’s music and have a deep curiosity about who it is so meaningful to so many people. If you have any thoughts about this song in particular please share it in the comments below so that me and the Swiftie community that finds this space can enjoy your insights.
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