There’s this song by Faye Wong entitled ‘Eyes on Me’ that I love. What’s odd is that it originally appeared as part of ‘Final Fantasy 8′, which is, of all things, a video game.
I know, that’s certainly an odd place to find a song to fall in love with. I’ve actually never played the game myself but for some reason I downloaded a promotional video for it a couple of years ago, and in it the song was playing.
I guess more than anything I fell in love with the imagery of the video, which featured the main protagonists meeting at a dance ballroom, falling in love, going through all sorts of adventures together (remember, this is a video game after all), and eventually just when everything seems hopeless and lost… they end up together.
I like that idea.
I guess I would like to believe that my own diluted life can become the stuff of legends. Or, in this case, my own legend. That I can suddenly, without expecting it, find someone’s peaceful eyes on me. That she will look at me and realize that there is so much more than just this quiet and slightly awkward guy that no one ever sees.
