When I walk beside her, I am the better man..
When I took to leave her, I always stagger back again.."
"..And when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again"
He feels weighed down with the pressure of being the better man. His true self has his vices, his weaknesses but he wants his better self to be the 'man' she knows and admires. He feels like a stretched string that's tense, that's tied somewhere, that gets pulled back every time it strays a little far beyond the periphery. She doesn't hold the string he just comes back again...
He climbs down, down from the high pedestal he himself tried to climb for her once. He wants to truly climb down and be free again. This time he wants to cut the string that tie him and pull him back but this time she just takes him back again.. She wants to give him his choice but she doesn't believe somehow that this is really his 'choice'. May be he doesn't really know or may be he does know. She just takes him back again.
And it is here that Eddie Vedder bows out for U2 to croon.. ' I can't live with or without you'...This is the story that plays out when I hear these two songs play out in my playlist. But somehow it ain't just the songs, its my mind still reeling under game theory. How does this game play out, lets put the play-offs in place:
Interestingly this game is inherently tied to the payoffs for each player (This is so John Nash moment for me!!) In the situation above where you win all or lose all and you do so together makes this game play out in the following manner. Its a game which says both can win only if both agree on what they want together. The first mover makes his choice and the other chooses what maximizes the playoffs for both of them. Both are rational people, the first mover knows exactly what he wants and the second trusts the first player to have played his best move and he in return doesn't even look into making the choice where they both lose. Ahh so simple it would have been... But then
'there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world'
Thank god for the rest of the lyrics to end the blog abruptly :)
When I took to leave her, I always stagger back again.."
"..And when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again"
He feels weighed down with the pressure of being the better man. His true self has his vices, his weaknesses but he wants his better self to be the 'man' she knows and admires. He feels like a stretched string that's tense, that's tied somewhere, that gets pulled back every time it strays a little far beyond the periphery. She doesn't hold the string he just comes back again...
He climbs down, down from the high pedestal he himself tried to climb for her once. He wants to truly climb down and be free again. This time he wants to cut the string that tie him and pull him back but this time she just takes him back again.. She wants to give him his choice but she doesn't believe somehow that this is really his 'choice'. May be he doesn't really know or may be he does know. She just takes him back again.
And it is here that Eddie Vedder bows out for U2 to croon.. ' I can't live with or without you'...This is the story that plays out when I hear these two songs play out in my playlist. But somehow it ain't just the songs, its my mind still reeling under game theory. How does this game play out, lets put the play-offs in place:
'there's a big
a big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world'
Thank god for the rest of the lyrics to end the blog abruptly :)
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