Tuesday, March 4,
2025
Time: 9:05 PM
Song: Adam’s Song
Artist: Blink 182
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s while driving home from Write On
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/6xpDh0dXrkVp0Po1qrHUd8?si=c4192a0e15684b88
During our Write On meeting on Tuesday night, we analyzed
two shipwreck flash fiction stories that I judged during a recent writing
contest. Both stories had strengths and weaknesses, and both took a unique
approach to this specific genre.
We transitioned to talking about how we would approach this
genre, and how you could write a shipwrecked story without being the cliché man
or woman stranded on a desert island after his or her boat sinks.
Our lone assignment for our next meeting was to start
considering how would we approach a shipwrecked story in an unconventional way.
As I drove home through an early March drizzle, “Adam’s Song”
came on, and I realized that this song about depression and suicide could be
construed as a shipwrecked song. The subject of this song feels isolated from
his friends and family, and probably because of his depression, seeks the isolation
as in the lyric, “I couldn’t wait until I got home/To pass the time in my room
alone.”
This person has a longing to go back in time to a better
point in his life, when things were easier, and the future seemed brighter. Metaphorically,
this person is shipwrecked in their current situation, isolated from others,
and seemingly incapable of getting back to where they feel they belong.
Sadly, for this song, they feel the only solution is to end
it.
If I were to fictionalize this scenario, I think the challenge
would be to somehow provide a life raft for this character.
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