⠀ ⠀ ⠀Jay.. :
There are songs that simply sound beautiful, and then there are songs that feel like they were written from the pages of your own life. For me, “Lifetime” by Ben&Ben is not just music—it is a quiet confession, a lingering question, and a memory I never really outgrew. Every time I hear the lines “Was there a lifetime waiting for us, in a world where I was yours?” it feels like someone finally put into words the story I’ve been carrying for years.
I’ve liked her for a long time—longer than I ever planned to. If I trace it back to exactly four years ago from today, that’s roughly "1,461 days", or "35,064 hours", or about "2,103,840 minutes", or even "126,230,400 seconds" of quietly holding onto something I never had the courage—or maybe the chance—to fully claim. It sounds like a lot when you count it like that. And it is. That’s how long she’s been a part of my thoughts, even without knowing it.
The lyric “tangled with another, eyes, never mind, you were never mine” hits the hardest. Because that’s exactly how it felt—watching her from a distance, knowing she belonged in a world that didn’t include me. There were moments when our eyes met, when conversations felt a little deeper than usual, when I let myself imagine something more. But reality always found a way to interrupt. She was never mine, and maybe she was never meant to be.
Still, I can’t deny how real it all felt. Even if it was one-sided, even if it lived mostly in my head, those feelings were genuine. That’s why the line “glimpse of me and you, oh, you were a good dream” feels so personal. She was a “what if” that stayed with me—a dream that never became real but never completely faded either. And sometimes, dreams like that are harder to let go of than reality.
What makes it even more painful is the question the song keeps asking: “Was it the wrong time? What if we tried giving in a little more?” I’ve asked myself that over and over again. Maybe if I had been braver. Maybe if things were different. Maybe if life gave us just one more chance to meet halfway. But “maybe” is a dangerous place to live in. It keeps you stuck between what happened and what could have been.
2026-03-31 09:51:50