i love movies. i've mentioned that before, i'm sure. some of my
favorite parts of movies are the soundtracks, and often while im
watching some piece of cinematic brilliance that would be less so if
not for the music highlighting the scene, i wonder what it would sound
like if someone put a soundtrack to my life? to my movie? to yours? every life, i imagine, would span several genres. contemporary pop on
a first date. classical epics when solving some difficult situation.
heavy metal when we're revelling in some excess or another. perhaps a
jethro tull flute solo when we're laying in the bed in the wee hours
just thinking. i wonder when our favorite song would play, if ever.
what songs truly define who we are? our songs are not alone either. they join in the tunes of others.
there's harmony when we're in agreement. it's a cacophony when we're
at odds. and sometimes we can hear some of our own tunes listening to
the music of others, in the way they laugh, the way they cry, the look
in their eyes when they wonder. it's been beneficial, at least for me,
to listen for the turns in melody in others that i've heard in myself,
and i hope that i've been able on occasion to kindle in others the
uplifting songs i've heard in my own soul sound. in the end, i think a lot of us are singing the same song, just maybe
in a different key.
ghost
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