I have always been in awe of composers/musicians all my life. The simple reason being, it is one thing to love music, and be able to catch a tune and reproduce it but to create and invent a tune, now that is a different ball game altogether! I have often wondered, how is that "humanly" possible?!
Off late, I have had the time and the support to pursue one of my interests, which is to learn Spanish. I have always loved this language as I feel it is one that is spoken from the heart and the culture of the Spanish speaking pepople of being open, deep in love with everything around and loud and funny are all very dear to me as well. I feel, if not an Indian, I would have been a perfect Latino ;) so now I am giving it all to learn to converse, understand and try and think in Spanish. A couple of days back, when my friend was saying something to her son, I actually, without even my knowledge, spoke to the boy in Spanish :) It happened so quickly and that "thinking in Spanish" lasted just for a few seconds but that was AMAZING!! Now, that's what I call a leap of faith being proven!
When you do something that you so far only believed you could do, it is a euphoric feeling. I now realise that when a musician/composer is so immersed in music, he/she actually begins to think in "music" and like how poets create poems out of words so do musicians, tunes out of notes! I must say I am so envious of anyone who has that faculty!
Having said that, this small experience has shown me the "mantra of happiness" in life. Just those few second of doing something I always believd I could do, kept me happy for long and even now when I think of it, I feel great. I think it is the sense of achievement that makes one happy and so the only way to be is to keep achieveing, now I don't mean that in the de rigueur sense. What I mean is challenge yourself physically, intellectually, emotionally and in every other conceivable way often and when you do something you think you can or even can't, it is the formula for happiness! Like recently, I climbed 20 floors without a break which I never thought I could and that gave me immense happiness! If we keep doing that, it doesn't matter, if you are rich or poor, educated or not, have a job or don't, have someone to love or not, have a family or not, nothing matters!
Take that leap and spread happiness becaue if you are happy, the world around you is :)
Off late, I have had the time and the support to pursue one of my interests, which is to learn Spanish. I have always loved this language as I feel it is one that is spoken from the heart and the culture of the Spanish speaking pepople of being open, deep in love with everything around and loud and funny are all very dear to me as well. I feel, if not an Indian, I would have been a perfect Latino ;) so now I am giving it all to learn to converse, understand and try and think in Spanish. A couple of days back, when my friend was saying something to her son, I actually, without even my knowledge, spoke to the boy in Spanish :) It happened so quickly and that "thinking in Spanish" lasted just for a few seconds but that was AMAZING!! Now, that's what I call a leap of faith being proven!
When you do something that you so far only believed you could do, it is a euphoric feeling. I now realise that when a musician/composer is so immersed in music, he/she actually begins to think in "music" and like how poets create poems out of words so do musicians, tunes out of notes! I must say I am so envious of anyone who has that faculty!
Having said that, this small experience has shown me the "mantra of happiness" in life. Just those few second of doing something I always believd I could do, kept me happy for long and even now when I think of it, I feel great. I think it is the sense of achievement that makes one happy and so the only way to be is to keep achieveing, now I don't mean that in the de rigueur sense. What I mean is challenge yourself physically, intellectually, emotionally and in every other conceivable way often and when you do something you think you can or even can't, it is the formula for happiness! Like recently, I climbed 20 floors without a break which I never thought I could and that gave me immense happiness! If we keep doing that, it doesn't matter, if you are rich or poor, educated or not, have a job or don't, have someone to love or not, have a family or not, nothing matters!
Take that leap and spread happiness becaue if you are happy, the world around you is :)
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