“It’s easy to confuse a soulmate with a mirror." - Nicky Fitzpatrick, Daisy Jones and The Six.
Not too long ago, I watched the series Daisy Jones and the Six. As a rock n roll fan, there was no way I was going to miss out on it but nothing prepared me for the ride I was going to be on.
Daisy Jones and The Six is mini series about a fictional Rock band in the 70s called The Six, led by Billy Dunne who is the lead vocalist and guitarist, with his brother and their friends. While fighting to build a name for their band and get their big break Billy happens to meet a top producer Teddy Price at a grocery store who agrees to give them a chance.
Daisy Jones on the other hand is a singer and songwriter in between odd jobs and from a dysfunctional home, who plays her song on the piano in a club where Teddy happens to be at. After some persuasion from Teddy, Daisy agrees to meet the band and see if they can be a great match. After a rough start, Billy and Daisy begin to get to know each other and see that they both possess the powerful gift of music and are on fire when they are together. Amidst the chaos of getting Billy and Daisy to see eye to eye, writing their first album, Daisy’s drug use and the biggest elephant in the room; Billy’s wife, Daisy and Billy, fall in love.
It's easy to see why they would fall in love as you watch. They are the same, like the same things, have the same gift, create fire on stage and are basically the Yin to the Yang of each other.
In our walk through life and relationships, we often come across once in a while, a person who mirrors us and it looks like this is the perfect person made for us. A soul mate. I mean, we both love the same things from normal to weird and this mirror image creates an almost unbreakable bond. In the best scenarios, it is both parties who fall in love. In other cases, it can be just one person but in both cases, a lot of the time, problems begin to arise.
When two humans are on fire for each other like that, it can be a candle in the wind. Pure love, lust and tension that it makes you both want to burst into flames is as beautiful to behold as it is dangerous. And then It dies out fast, leaving behind shattered hearts and deep regret.
When it is one sided, it leaves the other party wondering if they read the vibe wrong and projected wanting to be something but that's usually because it's very hard to find someone who completely gets you and once you do, it's hard to disentangle from that person even when they don't like you in that way.
We also forget that our image in the mirror are also filled with flaws and our soulmate is filled with theirs which is the only thing the mirror cannot show and we cannot see by just looking.
Just because we have found our soulmate, doesn’t mean that we are meant to be together. It’s painful.
Sometimes a mirror is a mirror, that's it.
Because we bond over amsr videos on YouTube or find ourselves wondering when the new Jon Bellion album would come out doesn't mean that there is love happening.
Sometimes a mirror is all that it is.
Daisy Jones and The Six is a superb series that I highly recommend. The songs are beautiful, the emotions are raw and the chemistry between Billy and Daisy is beautiful, fiery and destructive.
There are several more layers to this awesome series but I’ll let you go and enjoy it for your self.
Please let me know if you ever get around to seeing it. It’s available on Prime Video. I’ll be super stoked to talk about it some more so we can talk about it in the comments or on X.
