Mad World

First song to start. Fitting that it would be Mad World by Gary Jules. My only recent memory of this song was when Glambert sang it on American Idol, wailing like a hyena. Then of course many of us know this song from Donnie Darko, a movie I never saw the whole way through. Don't crucify me please. Anyway I was looking at the lyrics. I always thought the song had a very sad melody, but never pay enough attention to listen to the lyrics. Only phrase I know is "all around me are familiar faces." Pretty sad huh. Listening to it again now, in some odd way I find it inspiring. I feel like I'm in a room with everyone going in slow motion and then in blur.
How many of us feel like we're stuck in this blur? This routine in the mad world? Are we invisible in this mad world? How many of us want to kill ourselves instead of living in the routine of the mad world? How many of us feel like we are going nowhere in this mad world? It is a mad world and when I step back from the madness, I can start to understand where this song is coming from and then I pause and take myself as an individual. The world is outside of me and although I perform the actions of children celebrating birthdays and going to school, i know I am not trapped in the mundane of the mad world. I am aware.