The Open Door

Sometime life seems like the movie the Matrix and we're all looking for the Key Master to open the right doors to the architect of our own design to find joy and happiness. Or as Neo is asked, "what is it that you want?" To which he simply says.... "Peace"."

But like in the movie, our time here is about choice,  the free will to open or close any door we choose knowing the conseqeunces of those actions. And that's where the challenge comes when our choices are clouded or fueled by emotions that drive us here and there. It's so easy so just say be the witness to your emotions  and realize them as objective realities. Yes we all live in the three states of consciousness of waking - Dreaming - Sleeping or what correspond to the three great realms of gross - subtle and causal, so that we all see the world in a different way depending on what state we are in at the time. But there are some emotions that are very difficult to dismiss. The two by which we are cyberneticaly wired.... Love and Hate or the Pleasure -Pain principle that finds itself lived out in our daily life of relationships.


Emotions are the subjective experiences from our own personal point of view that move us. In fact, the English word 'emotion' is derived from the French word émouvoir. This is based on the Latin emovere, where e- (variant of ex-) means 'out' and movere means 'move',' or the related "motivation."

Emotions move us, drive us and we even make lists of good ones and bad ones. Yet when it comes to the heart our emotions define us and  since we spend most of our conscious time in the waking state or sensorimotor world of people, places and things, we tend to just say that everything is Fine Again And we aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day.


Now I chose Seether's Video for a reason as I believe it's in relationships that we find our meaning, our joy and happiness, and also our sorrow , pain and loss. And beacuse I am a fan of Seether and Amy Lee, I  thought I would use their videos which are a public display of their own relationship, emotions and the choices they each made through the use of music videos.

Amy Lee and Shaun Morgan were together for about two or so years and you may remember that both of them sang together in Seether's Broken Video which is about a relationship.


Shaun said he wrote this about his emotions towards a girlfriend with the first line
"I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh..."  and It was a way of telling her he wanted her: "Cause I am broken when I am lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away"



 So having lost his brother, and losing his guitarist in the previous year he also did a stint in rehab. So you might understand the meaning of the new album title, but the story gets better. You see, Amy Lee of Evanescence decides to release the Album the Open Door that lays out the two's relationship and strikes a blow at Shaun subjecting him to the humiliation of Amy Lee, pretty much writing an entire album about him.

The song, Call Me When Your Sober sets the stage with Amy as Little Red riding Hood who pets the wolf, (Remember this metaphor as Shaun uses it in response in a future video)



This video switches it so that the wolves allow their ears to be petted and shows how Red Riding Hood turns the tables (or at least walks down table) with a second wolf who is being evicted (arguably).

It focusses upon the (at the time) recent break up of Lee’s relationship with Shaun Morgan  and instead of taking the issues from the relationships, she turns it around and deals with the wolves on her own.  So we have the tale of Red Riding Hood taking on the wolf and about a young woman taking control of her own situation. So to watch the video knowing all this background just makes it that much more interesting and the looks she gives when she says you only call me when your sober with her head tilt and look at 2:31 into the vid and her last look into the camera when she says I've made up your mind and laughs are priceless. Take a look.


So not to be out done in the public eyes, Shaun's emotions are relased through his own video in response to Amy's. Shaun is quoted as saying, "

"The song is about not allowing yourself to be beaten down by what people say about you and kind of believing in yourself, and ultimately knowing that you'll be better for it"

I think it speaks for itself, and look out for the wolf and the chorus:




So how do you deal with all these emotions we feel daily, some so powerful such as love and loss that it remains a daily burden?

Then celebrate that closure and let it go...let it go.......

DEO