Music and musing
There's music that makes a person feel very... present, I suppose. You listen to it, it touches something inside you. It may be joy, or sadness, or rage, or lust, or any of a million other different things. Whatever it is, the music makes you feel it, and while you are listening that feeling is part of you.
That's not the music I'm talking about.
The music that I'm talking invites you to be part of it. You listen, you want to let all the molecules of your being let go of each other to float on the music and assume its shape. Individual concerns for a brief time are put aside, to be reclaimed only when the music has finished with you. The kind of music I am talking about is a fleeting glimpse of nirvana.*
I'm feeling a great need to listen to the second kind of music tonight. I think that the urge is escapist in nature. This is odd, since there's nothing I can think of that I particularly want to escape from. Well, possibly boredom, but the first kind of music usually alleviates that problem.
Or maybe it's just sleep dep. *shrugs*
*This refers to the Buddhist nirvana, and should not be confused with the grunge band which, ironically enough, made the first kind of music.
That's not the music I'm talking about.
The music that I'm talking invites you to be part of it. You listen, you want to let all the molecules of your being let go of each other to float on the music and assume its shape. Individual concerns for a brief time are put aside, to be reclaimed only when the music has finished with you. The kind of music I am talking about is a fleeting glimpse of nirvana.*
I'm feeling a great need to listen to the second kind of music tonight. I think that the urge is escapist in nature. This is odd, since there's nothing I can think of that I particularly want to escape from. Well, possibly boredom, but the first kind of music usually alleviates that problem.
Or maybe it's just sleep dep. *shrugs*
*This refers to the Buddhist nirvana, and should not be confused with the grunge band which, ironically enough, made the first kind of music.