I Want It All
20 Letters: #12
This is the twelfth instalment of a series, 20 Letters, where I share letters I wrote and sent via the post, throughout 2020 and 2021, to people in my life. Read more here.
“I want too much, she thought. I want everything. I want day and night, arrows and Agincourt, sleeping and waking, world without end, amen.”
- Daphne du Maurier, A Border-Line Case
“With eternal love, the stars above
all there is and ever was
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it allA blade of grass, a grain of sand
the moonlit sea, to hold your hand
I want it all, I want it all
I want it all, I want it all”- Metric, “The Shade”
Darling NS,
One of my many goals for 2020 is to write and send 20 letters. This is letter #12. Each letter has a different theme or topic, often inspired by song lyrics, and this one has been stewing in my mind for a long time. I fell in love with that Metric song a couple years ago, but it wasn’t until I was on holiday in Croatia in August, reading Daphne du Maurier’s short stories, that the two passages clicked together and I started writing this letter. I chose to send it to you because I think we’re similar in many ways and I still feel a strong connection with you, despite the years and thousands of kilometres between us.
