A Musical Metaphor
posted at 9:55 pm
on May. 27, 2009
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Tiredness saps the curiosity from your eyes, and makes each approaching corner seem daunting, not promising. Anger wicks imagination from your thoughts. Sadness ties itself to your dreams and like concrete kite strings pulls them down into the dirt.
These are the things I’m thinking about tonight: the effects that negative emotions can have on the very things that counteract them; like how having an upset stomach can make you stop eating well, which keeps you from getting the food you need to be healthy and cure your stomach trouble.
As I fight with mono, and with worry about being away from Hop Studios and from decisions that are piling up in Vancouver about where to live and what to do about how I work, I realize how easy it has become for me to start vibrating in synch with the emotions around me, and in turn to influence those emotions with my own worries and concerns.
It doesn’t take much to set a group of people in tune—I think we’re prone to self-tune to each other’s moods and sounds and rhythms. And if that tune is a minor chord, if it’s a funeral dirge, or if it’s simply discordant—the tune can be hard to change.
That’s why a break, a period of silence, can be so useful and important. Returning fresh, with a deep breath and a renewed sense of harmony, I hope I can take this opportunity for quiet contemplation to create a resonant environment of emotion, to hum a happy chord, and to have that be the sound that fills the space in which I live and influence the people with whom I interact.
I hope that, returning from this vacation, that I’m able to—to start things off on the right note, and to have that be the music with which I face some of the things I’ve got on my list to do this summer.
So if you see me humming when I get back, you’ll know why.
