When was the last time you looked in the mirror and were surprised by who was staring back at you?
When was the first time you realised you had some "thing" that others admired?
Who was the first person you realised was not who you thought they were...and you were glad?
What was the last situation...that you truly told someone what you thought...because it was the right thing to do...and not the convenient thing to do?
When were you first wounded by someone you trusted...and what music do you relate to that experience?
Somehow...it has been on my mind that the experiences we find painful are also attached to music from our lives...and that music is sometimes a way for us to retrace the experience and the pain...in a bittersweet, nostalgic, painful reminder of where we were when __________ happened.
If questions were expectations and answers were invitations then we could expect to be invited to opportunities that were beyond our limited understanding and look forward to our growth.
Wouldn't it be nice if we all were focused on our own personal growth and forward motion.
The good news is some of us are and there are others that can be related to. The hard part is distinguishing those in search of their own growth from those that play at it but aren't really interested in being more than they are.
Sometimes that is time consuming and discouraging because one invests time into relationships just to find that the person isn't who they presented themselves to be.
Ahh but if it weren't for these experiences what would we learn from and how would we know?
So our experience is our teacher and our time is it's limit of success.
Tiz...
Do questions answer or do they teach? Do answers invite or do they reproach? Do invitations entice or do they lend themselves to opportunities?
For each of us we will have different answers to these questions...but it is most intriguing as to where it will take you...
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“It” provides an out, from knowing or not knowing what is!
“It” makes a vapid statement of banality seem insightful.
“It” makes dull people interesting.
“It” makes inept people appear competent.
“It” gives one a false sense of security.
“It” is the one thing that can not replace what is.
Hoo-ray!
I see you’re playing with syntax’s. Wonderful, to see you are branching out… digging deep… doing the needful.
“…When was the last time you looked in the mirror and were surprised by who was staring back at you?”
A history of action and present achievement is a better reflection than a mirror as to who was.
“…When was the first time you realised you had some "thing" that others admired?”
That which one is presuming to be lost is not. Rather, this noticed absence is merely a figment of a presumptive mind.
Who was the first person you realised was not who you thought they were...and you were glad?
Happiness exists without being a condition of what is and not what one assumes.
“…Retracing an experience the pain…in music…”
This is a form of generalization. And often has the effect of lessening the experience into manageable terms. Notably a mind ill prepared to conceptualize or contemplate a traumatic experience will generalize the event into a framework fitting to there mindset.
Music lacks the discursive nature of language. But perhaps you meant to say; “What lyrics do to help us retrace ….bla, bla, bla…” The bla,bla is not meant to be synical.
Rather a time saver.
Now a question or two …
Does the operant matter more than the effect?
What is a question that is applied after the unobvious answer has been presented?
What was the last question you asked and you were too afraid to answer honestly?
Who can you see in a mirror and are you surprised by what could have been straying back at you?
Pondering gets you where faster ...
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