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Originally Posted by cylon  Yet challenge can get you down at the same time. |
While said challenge is getting you down, I would assume you're probably not using the word "challenge" to describe it.
But yeah, even Steve has alluded to something like this in his posts comparing life to a game that we decided to play just before being born. Why be a bad sport now? Why say "this game sucks because everything isn't handed to me on a silver platter"?
And I think part of the role of music is to express that challenge, that difficulty.
It's a two-way thing -- music is
us speaking to the universe, and
the universe speaking back to us as well, if that makes any sense. Even if you don't play an instrument and just listen to records, I think that's still true. In a way, non-musicians become a musician while listening, because they're still synchronizing their brain with it, even if they don't have the skill to involve their fingers or voices -- so I consider
active listening to be a form of expression.
(I get frustrated with people who seem too passive about listening to music, because I don't consider their lack of musicianship to be a good reason for this.)