my careless contagion

Consequences by Camila Cabello highlights some thoughts with which I'm familiar. It showcases Cabello's voice, as well, because the instrumentation stays mostly in the background. This is a sentimental ballad lamenting the consequences, good and bad, of a relationship that has come and gone.  Not all the lyrics fit how I feel about the girl I lost. I don't think what happened between us was "dumb, dark, and cheap," however, it definitely had consequences. Actually, the consequences are staggering. I've had a frame-of-mind change that I can't even equate with anything else. As time and a long, hard retrospective look have informed me, the consequences for me are a strong parallel to the birth of my son and other beautiful things I've seen. Speaking only for myself, I would never want to undo it. Someone once said that you have to accept the fact that things will never go back to the way they were. Such is life. Some things are undoable. Can a ba...

Camila Cabello's Never be the Same is a song about, well, sex. Okay, everything about Camila Cabello is about sex. Really, though, this song is about what love does to a person's brain. I can wholeheartedly agree that I will never be the same after ... her.  This is a fan-made video featuring scenes from the movie Nerve , starring Emma Roberts. Strangely enough, I've seen this movie. I guess it's kind of a love story, but it's hard to tell with all the other stuff going on. I think Emma Roberts is an underrated actress, but perhaps that's because I would like to see her in more movies. Hell, I've even seen the Nancy Drew movie she was in.  All of that is immaterial to this post, though.  There is a rush that comes with the first flush of love. I don't care if you are straight, gay, bi, or whatever your predilection, you will feel it. It's like a drug, which is what the song relates this first stage to. It's the infatuation stage, the ...