Author: Matt74
Date: 2020-08-08 11:24
We don’t have the right to take music away from kids. When your kid stands up for the first time, they’re going to fall. When they fall in love, they’re going to be heartbroken. They’re going to break legs, get chickenpox, make mistakes, get sick, and some of them are going to die young.
I’m not sure what the point of trying to keep people “safe” is if they don’t have a life to live. IMO they simply didn’t think things through. They could have addressed the immediate problems with targeted solutions. Instead they told everybody to hide, and then killed off their jobs and took rest of their life. It’s a virus, it’s not going to magically disappear. The damage to our life and culture, not to mention our individual psyches and families, is inestimable. Good things do come of it - I can actually practice now that I’m not working, but IDK what I’m going to do when I can’t pay rent. I would feel robbed if I were a freshman. We don’t have the right. “Virtual” music is not a substitute for the real thing.
I have epilepsy, but I don’t hide all day long. I go swimming in the ocean because to me it’s worth doing. Fortunately it’s possible for me, some things aren’t. I’m scared every time I get on my bicycle, but I do it. It’s worth doing. I go to the store, have a seizure, get up, and get on with it. I might have been a musician if I didn’t have a stupid brain tumor. I can’t change that, but living in fear is not acceptable. People will either realize this or they won’t. We can live prudently and rationally, but we have to live. You don’t have any choice.
My dad had 5(?) open heart surgeries over his whole life, and was sick from the time he was a kid, but he got marred, saw his children grow up, traveled the whole country, saw the sun rising on the Rocky mountains and setting on the Pacific, had a career, programmed a satellite, made friends everywhere he worked, and lived a full life because it was worth it. He didn’t live to be 100, but he did live. He made a life for his family. We have to decide what life we want because it’s going to go on no matter what. We can go on all miserable and lonely, and without music, or we can suck it up and accept the consequences of living a full life.
If you want some perspective read the introduction to the Decameron.
- Matthew Simington
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