So here we are. My first blog entry.
My name is Chris. To me there is nothing like that moment when you crest a hill or open your door and the music in your ears (ipod or otherwise) rises to the same occassion. It provides the score to your life. More and more people are enjoying that phenominon thanks to the popularity of the ipod and other portable music players. We are each given that chance tosoundtrack our own lives with an ever changing mix of legally and illegally aquired music.
The music you choose says alot about you. There is a workbook entitled, "How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything", by Cheri Huber. In her book you fill in all the pages by yourself, any way you want. You can draw on them, write in prose, or poetry, even burn the book if its how you react to it. There is no wrong answer. I think the music we choose works the same way.
This brings us to the compass , or navigation part of the title "musical compass". If the music you listen to , and keep with you says alot about you, then what does it say? I find myself, this very night struggling to find my purpose. I am part of a band here in maryland, and we had our first live show yesterday. I wasnt happy with it, but people loved it and I suppose thats all we can hope for really. I want to write a song myself, to contribute to our band and I dont know what to write about. I should write what I am passionate about! Well... here is our crossroads.
Here I am stuck with the very question I try to answer by filling my life with so many activities and otherwise productive things; What is my purpose?
Perhaps my music can tell me. One of the first songs on my list is "Stars and the Moon" from Jason Robert Brown's "Songs for a New World". It tells the story of a young woman who always felt she new what she wanted. She is given the chance with a young man who cant offer her anything , but the stars, the moon, a soul to guide her, and the promise he will never go. She passes him up, and passes the next man up who offers her spontaneaty and a reckless through life... She is certain she wants a life, with expensive cars, a beautiful home, a yacht and all these wonderful things, and in the end she gets it. She gets it all but in the end she realizes, she'll never have those immaterial things she could have had with the first man.
I have answered one tiny piece of my own question. I am no closer to finding my purpose, technically. But I know that I value the stars, the moon, and the company of someone who will help me grow and appreciate me. I admire the beauty of the world, and lucky for me, there is so much of it out there. Maybe my next purpose in life, can be to go find some of it and just....take it in.
Thats all for now. Take in some beauty from the world, when the sun rises this morning, or when the clouds look like faces, and have a good day.
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