ONE LIFE,MANY LOVES
"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary." Martin Luther
Come Away With Me" by norah jones
Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song
Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies
I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come
Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you
And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me
When you listen to Mozarts piano concerto no.20,you realise how many emotions can be invoked and provoked by music.As the opening notes of Beethoven's symphony no.5 thunder and strike you,the fear he must have experienced while he was composing that monumental piece hits and touches your soul.He composed that piece when he realised that he was going deaf and that he would no longer be able to hear what people say about him,good or bad.But then that served him well i guess in my opinion for he flew alone in his mind and music and that started the richest phase of composition in the great masters life.If any of you have seen the tamil horror film PIZZA,there is a beautiful piece played in the background when the hero and heroine have problems and misunderstandings and i think it comes in the first thirty minutes of the film.well people,that piece is by beethoven and his most famous piano sonata,the moonlight sonata.Ah,now you didn't know that did you.well if you have seen superstar's annamalai film,then in that song annamalai,annamalai shot in ooty opens with beethoven's fifth symphony music.
Legally,all of us are married and bound to our spouses,but we carry on with other loves such as music,books and solitary walks.I know many who sacrifice all this for their loved ones and soon there is no love left in their partnership or marriage.Be it mozart,beethoven or ilayaraja,everyone should learn to enjoy music of some kind for it enriches our life and thoughts and also the brain and that has been proven.When plants can respond and grow faster when soft music is played next to them,then you think it won't work on us.
All of us,you,me and everyone are a beautiful composition by nature and everyone carries a song in their soul.Dont ever let anyone tell you different or put you down and never ever lose your individuality for anyones sake.if you lose that,you lose you and that is the end.Sometime during my 2nd std,i started saving 5 and 10 paisa and used that to buy song books of films.Whenever i had a new song book,i used to go sit alone under the guava tree behind the house and sing loudly and out of tune.I think those were some of most happiest moments in my life.me,those few pages of song book,my favourite dog tony and just nature and well i died and went of to heaven.what happened to all those birds in our neighbourhood and why all of them migrated to some distant land can be attributed to my singing prowess and moreover to my voice which sounds like a donkey suffering from piles.
We humans are sentimental people and tend to collect and keep close things and stuff that give us pleasure.Tees,books,old tapes,cds,photos and most importantly people.Let me confess that for my walk in the twilight years i have some great companions.The music part is done and ready and as for as books,i have the fountainhead by ayn rand and the lord of rings by tolkien and lots of stephen king and the earlier works of tom clancy.I have to mention the fountainhead in particular for each time i read it there is something new to learnt or to be aware of.I have read it a dozen times and probably will read it another dozen times.When i am reading a book and when it has really captured me in its pages,i tend to read some important lines again and again and repeat it and also visualising it and living it and acting it out.All that involvement puts me closer to the author and makes me understand better what he is trying to say or convey through his characters.It could be just a book,but dont take it lightly for when it is being written the author goes through all the emotions of his characters and that is something like a woman going through labor pain before delivery.
You know only if you realise that this life as we know has an end will we learn not to take it for granted.We all see death or have attended a funeral or two in our times.but after that momentary sadness,we forget about it and get on doing the same thing and taking everything for granted which i feel is sad and also bad.fill your life with happiness and fill it most importantly with your own self.dont be bent or broken by peer pressure or style.please dont be the sheep or the shepherd and walk your own path.be the song,be the music and even if you are the swallow which has missed its summer,sing loudly about how alive you are and how much you feel.
"...No- but ours is a journey into ourselves, a walk with God every day! Ours is a book that we write, a smile, a love, a tear, a lust, an awakening, a learning, a joy, a laughter, a memory, a dream, a vision, a love, a love, a love and a love. Our life is now. And Heaven is always there, but this life isn't always there, but this life isn't always here. Heaven is always there for us but this life is a gift to us!" C. JoyBell C.
Edited by s.satishkumar - 11 years ago