Monday, February 3, 2025

The Lighthouse

My work project for last and this week has been about feminism in China. Went through a lot of pages: documentation of some famous sexual violation cases, the individuals involved, their stories, women's sorrow and courage...

It's one of the most significant paradoxes: you are your own universe, your thoughts and actions are connecting this world around you, you hold your own power Versus reality, the reality of women and the masses who are systemically oppressed. 

What universe do I exactly exist? Maybe when I'm conscious it's one, when I'm unconscious I fly to another?   

As a physically and spiritually newly liberated woman, I have healed my old wounds. I got rid of the anxiety, the scare, and the distrust. I don't anymore find myself revisiting what happened when I was young and miserably hurt. I'm still intimidated by most men though, I'd rather have nothing to do with any of them. However I do have some good days when I'm more of the acceptive version, not afraid to let loose my feminine energy. 

The thing is, I never gotten past being picky. Yes I can pretend - with most people, I'm rarely myself. Count the people I'm truly comfortable and relaxed with? Maybe one? Maximum Two? And looking for such encounters has never been my goal. If it drops from the sky, I'll take it; if not, I'd be happy anyway.

I knew I had a strong connection with this song since the beginning! The 76 y/o Rock n Roll Queen Stevie Nicks released this song last year in September following the overruling of Roe v. Wade to promote women's rights. 

Aren't we our own universes? The entire world surrounding us is derived from us. Everything is interlinked by our energy and perception. Your power lies in the will to tap into the matters you care about. Whatever has the energy level to win your attention, you have equal power to alter its path. Everything is in your mind. When you close your eyes, the world goes dark; when you open your mind, the same world will be connected to the power source. 

Then what are we afraid of? Who is to stop us?




"The Lighthouse"

by Stevie Nicks


 I have my scars, you have yours 

Don't let them take your power 

Don't leave it alone in the final hours 

They'll take your soul, they'll take your power 


Don't close your eyes and hope for the best 

The dark is out there, the light is going fast 

Until the final hours, your life's forever changed 

And all the rights that you had yesterday

 Are taken away 

And now you're afraid 

You should be afraid 

Should be afraid 


Because everything I fought for 

Long ago in a dream is gone 

Someone said the dream is not over 

The dream has just begun, or 

Is it a nightmare? 

Is it a lasting scar? 

It is unless you save it and that's that 

Unless you stand up and take it back 

And take it back 



I have my scars, you have yours 

Don't let them take your power 

Don't leave it alone in the final hours 

They'll take your soul, they'll take your power 

Unless you stand up and take it back 

Try to see the future and get mad 

It's slipping through your fingers, you don't have what you had 

You don't have much time to get it back 


I wanna be the lighthouse 

Bring all of you together 

Bring it out in a song 

Bring it out in stormy weather 

Tell them the story 

I wanna teach 'em to fight 

I wanna tell 'em this has happened before 

Don't let it happen again 


I have my scars, you have yours 

Don't let them take your power 

Don't leave it alone in the final hours 

They'll take your soul, they'll take your power 

Unless you save it and that's that 

Unless you stand up and take it back 


Try to see the future and get mad 

It's slipping through your fingers, you don't have what you had 

You don't have much time 


You gotta get in the game 

You gotta learn how to play 

You gotta make a change 

You gotta do it today 


In the midnight hour, they'll slam the door 

Make you forget what you were fighting for 

Put you back in your place, they'll shut you down 

You better learn how to fight, you better say it out loud



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