Music Lessons

I can tell I am in the throws of Lent, the dawn of Spring. The titles of upcoming posts are all titled Lessons

One day I think I will be able to write a Laundry Lessons.....ummm, probably not.

Anyways,  I come asking you questions today.

Why are many afraid to go back and look into the past, fumbling in fear of what they will find?  Not to stay there but to learn and move on?  Why is there so much fear of reflection in our world?

Or maybe it isn't a fear.  Maybe,reflection has become too time consuming?  In a world where we can take thousands of selfies a day, tweet a new thought per second ,where there are hundreds of television channels and dvrs full of anything that might not possibly be on those hundreds of channels and when we can open tabs until our computer becomes cranky and Let's not forget the 24/7 Headlines that move us from one event to the next Breaking News.   Could we have become too Instant and Up to the Minute? and less pause and reflect?

If we want to learn to play a song, we do not play it once and move on, do we?  No, we sit and play it over and over, practicing and strengthening and learning how to hold our hands, how to play the instrument. It is a practice in patience and temperament. We give ourselves calluses on our fingertips and/or blisters on our thumbs as we strum the strings or search the keys  (or if your lucky enough to have a percussionist in the house, hear banging, clashing and trolling).   Often as we practice, there is reflection about what works and what doesn't.  Many times we learn a short cut or a lesson that prepares us for a similar song that we play in the future. Or maybe we realize that we just don't like a certain type of music as much as we thought we did. But we went there, we tried, we reflected and we learned.

After all that practice, we often have a beautiful piece of music to play.

What is wrong with replaying the music of our mind's memories until we have fashioned a lesson on how the song was meant to be played?  And maybe when we come to a future situation we will be able to play a harmony, instead of plucking painfully across the strings.

How amazed we will be to hear the music of our souls.

My underlying fear is that in letting go of reflection, we are loosing the art of story telling and without stories to tell, there is no music to write, to be played.

If you agree, spend some time reflecting today.  Drum up a beat and find your way.  It's okay if it isn't perfect, after all,  we are all just learning as we go : )