My Music Journal 2025: February 26, 2025

 

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Time: 4:12 PM
Song: The Wrestler
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Liked Songs on shuffle on Spotify.

Link to Song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6E6xVYnTszA6MerlIuiAoY?si=dc355e7fee31492f

I’ve had Spotify on for the last half hour or so, and I think this is the third Bruce Springsteen song to play.

It started with “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and then after a few songs it’s played “Waiting On A Sunny Day.” It needed a song from the 80s and maybe the 90s to get a quick-hit tour of the Boss’ catalog.

This is the first time today I’ve had a chance to rest my mind from work, and that’s only because I can’t decide where I should hit next.

What’s tingling in the back of my mind is my post from Feb. 19, which was generated the night before at our Write On meeting. To recap, I wrote a fictional diary about a guy in his 40s who loses his job and is quite befuddled by what to do with his life.

A few things keep coming to mind:

1. I think if I keep the diary format, he might be writing it to a long-lost friend. Likely a childhood friend. I don’t know if the friend died, or if they just had a falling out. The loss of this friendship haunts him, whether he acknowledges it or not. Perhaps the story would partly be about either reconnecting with this friendship, or about finally letting it go.
2. I am wondering if keeping the format as a diary is the best idea, or if I should just make it a narrative. I don’t know if the lost friendship plot persists then. Perhaps the story would be something completely different.
3. I have thought about having our main character chase some latent dream. One of my thoughts is having him begin training to be a professional wrestler. I figured it would open the door for some humor. It’s possible this works with the lost friendship plot also. I don’t know. I have also thought about having take up an instrument. Start dating someone, or maybe more than one someone. Interjecting a conflict with his son. The only thing I know is that he’s not going right back to work.
4. Mostly, I think I should just sit down and write for an hour and see where it goes.