One listen.

With this one I started thinking about how the title of the song works with how it sounds, and I think that’s what came through most in what I was writing.

Toshifumi Hinata’s (日向敏文) “Reflections” is from Reality in Love.

I hope you enjoy.

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There’s something morose in this. Something deeply serious, but there’s also fondness. Fondness in a waltz and a sway. A lot of things have happened and a lot of things are yet to come, but here is where life is. Now is where life is, and how did it get here? Were the right decisions made?

It’s easy to be sentimental and it’s easy to be wistful, and sometimes those are the guiding feelings that lead to looking further inward. To take stock of what was, and where the joys and sadness really lie. Sometimes these things take time, and sometimes the answers we thought were the right ones weren’t, and it’s only through rumination they can be found. And maybe they won’t be. Maybe they will be. Perhaps it is yet to be determined when the final note plays out and the song ends.