— inspired by The Fool on the Hill, The Beatles
🌿 May 22, 2026 — Fool on the Hill
Today “The Fool on the Hill” popped into my head. When I was a kid, I identified with that song, and honestly, I still do.
What hit me today is that the song really isn’t from the fool’s perspective. It’s from the people watching him. Everybody deciding who he is from the outside.
And maybe that’s why it stayed with me.
Sometimes it’s not just feeling like the fool. It’s feeling seen as the fool.
A little outside things. Watching. Thinking. Maybe noticing things differently than other people do.
The song always felt lonely to me, but not completely sad. More like somebody trying to make peace with being different from the flow around them.