Songs From The Ordinary

Some people die fast, snatched out of life in a moment, others are granted time to do their dying in. If you were given time to die, what would you think about? What would you remember the most? Daniella Edwards has been given time to die but she lies bed-ridden, frightened and bored, so she hires a nurse, someone she has hand-picked to help her with what she wants the most, to share her memories of the men she has known. She wants to re-live the time she spent with her 15 lovers, her songs from an ordinary life and in so doing, find peace as she approaches the end. "I have lived a little life. It was a hard thing for me to acknowledge that I would never be anything special or do anything of any account, I was never going to set the world on fire, I'm dispensable, a throwaway person. I wasn't clever or talented, I never saved anyone's life or invented anything and when I'm gone, there won't be anything to say I was here at all. When your average, you know you are not destined to do great things, you only make up the great mass in the middle. But I wanted.... I needed to believe that I was special, that I was different from everyone else and being loved, being adored, made me feel like that, it fed me the illusion that I had control and power in a world where I really had little of either. It made me feel real, it gave me substance. So, I have lived a little life in the shadows but the light of it has been love, and maybe that's not such a bad legacy when all's said and done.............