Life is a Dance In music, one doesn’t make the end of a composition the point of the piece. If that were so, the best conductor would be those who played the fastest, and only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crashing chord. It’s the same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room where you should arrive. The whole point of dancing is the dance. But we don’t see this notion occurring in this culture. We’ve got a system of schooling and working that focuses on a fictional end point. The child is put in the corridor of the grade system with a kind of ‘come on, here kitty, kitty, kitty’. You finish kindergarten, and that’s great because now you can go into grade one, and then ‘come on’ first grade leads to second and so on. Then you finish primary school, and you’ve got high school, and it’s revving up; the THING is coming! Then university, and by jove you get into honors, phd, post grad, you’ve almost made it. It’s getting closer now. Then you join the world, and you’re in some racket selling insurance, and you’ve got some quota to make, and you’re going to make it, and all the time the THING is coming! It’s coming! That great thing, the success you’ve been working toward, it’s just around that next corner; that next payrise, that bigger house, that promotion, you’re SO close! We’ve thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage which has a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or retirement, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; it was a composition, a dance, and you were supposed to sing while the music was being played. youtube/watch?v=qu9NWfvKdf4
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:16:36 +0000
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