Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-06-25 13:29
But to try to address the question more seriously . An old friend of mine ( old in both ways now ) once told me ,
"What I like about art is ...it's completely useless".
I left her house that day feeling baffled ,because she had dedicated her life to painting and was passionate about it .
Mulling over this paradoxical remark ( and she never made throwaway comments ) , I realized that she was referring to holding a relationship with something in which its merit is entirely a personal matter. We tend to spend most of our adult lives responding to a rational hierarchy of demands relating to matters of external value and tend to neglect our relationship with ourselves . Any activity that fits ones needs for that simplified relationship with oneself is cathartic and can really be a life saver ....or at least general wellbeing defender amid the madness of life .
I know that if I neglect mine ,then my ability to achieve all those things of outer value in my life becomes more of an uphill struggle and I have less positivity for the world around me ,so I think that having some little bubble which " reboots ". us is VERY important .
So I expect that for those of us that take up learning a instrument later in life , we probably don't have great aspirations as to where we will get with it,so much as a healthy recognition of a pursuit which feeds the soul and settles the mind .
Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853
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