Riding the wave, staying solid.
“Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.” No, it isn’t a post about love, Gotta dig deeper!
A conversation that started with the chaos of a start-up & the ambiguity that comes with it, “we’ll have to deal with it, coz it's going nowhere”.
It stuck with me. I googled; like I do everything else. I knew what I wanted to read but then it wasn’t anywhere. (It’s not going to be in this blog either). In the least expected place, I one day did discover it penned. And how selfish would I be, if I didn’t care to share?
Daisy Jones & the Six. Daisy Jones, the phenomenon.
It's fiction, Daisy isn’t real, no matter how I wish she was. That kind of existence seems too badass to be true anyway. But you read her once, she isn’t leaving.
These are the kind of days when you have no resources to deal with what goes on the outside that you remember who you could be on the inside.
Some days are messy
“Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
& some days there’s hope
“Don’t count yourself out this early, Daisy. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
Some days, you toughen up
“I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
Sometimes, the days are too peaceful to be real-
“When you have everything, someone else getting a little something feels like they’re stealing from you.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
Sometimes, you want to just give in
“It’s funny. At first, I think you start getting high to dull your emotions, to escape from them. But after a while you realize that the drugs are what are making your life untenable, they are actually what are heightening every emotion you have. It’s making your heartbreak harder, your good times higher. So coming down really does start to feel like rediscovering sanity. And when you rediscover your sanity, it’s only a matter of time before you start to get an inkling of why you wanted to escape it in the first place.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
Some days you question if you love doing what you do
“You can’t put it in your heart if it’s not there. And you can’t pull it out of your heart if it is.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
Then there are days you don’t realise how lucky you are
“The Chosen ones never know they are chosen. They think everyone gets a gold carpet rolled out for them.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
There are days, and then there are phases & seasons. But you ride the wave out. And some people (sometimes non-existent) ride with you. Like Daisy Jones.
I let Daisy teach me things, things I want to hear, sometimes things I do not want to, but need to hear.
Some days I crave brutal art, & jarring truth. Daisy Jones gives me that.
“Art doesn’t owe anything to anyone.
Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels like to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time. Did I have a right to be mad at him? Did he do anything wrong? Who cares? Who cares? I hurt. So I wrote about it”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
“Daisy, someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn’t an artist. They’re an a**hole.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
“Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
Some days I want love, oh have you met Camila?
“It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that. And what I wanted was a life — a family, a beautiful marriage, a home — with him. With the man I knew he truly was. And I was going to get it, hell or high water.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
“Do you know what you do with that level of trust? When someone says, ‘I trust you so much I can tolerate you having secrets?’ You cherish it. You remind yourself how lucky you are to have been given that trust every day.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
When I think of self-control, I think of Billy.
“It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
“History is what you did, not what you almost did, not what you thought about doing. And I was proud of what I did”
―Daisy Jones & The Six
This is a book that gives and gives and doesn’t stop.
How many books have you read that can do it?
How many characters stay with you?
How many stories scar you for life?
How often do decades get added to your experience coz the characters let you live their raw-est life brutalities authentically through those pages?
Daisy Jones is an unapologetic, ruthlessly self-loving woman with a fire in her heart that can warm you or burn you (her choice), and is daring enough to be courageous.
& let me warn you- this isn't a book you lend, you save it along with your copy of Halsey’s poetry, in the forbidden part of your bookshelf :)
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of f*kng story.”
― Daisy Jones.
P. S.
This blog after you finish the book- the high hits differently, lemme tell ya.
You could call this a book review if you crave to meet her.
Or call me lazy if you don’t get the point. You get the drill.
