I have recently started listening to some classical music throughout the day. I enjoy music and love all kinds of music, but I’m no pro and I don’t know much about it. Classical music is something that I’ve not really been exposed to, even though my father loves it. So recently, I’ve started listening to the morning classical music playlist on Spotify and it’s so interesting how much it’s changing my mood for the better. It’s also interesting how it differs from modern day music. There is something really calming, grounding, moving and beautiful about classical music. You can sense the coordination of all the musicians in every note that is being played. It’s complex and so beautifully elegant.
This does make me reflect on the past and how as humans we have evolved. I wonder how many beautiful traditions and practices we’ve replaced, removed or forgotten about. There are so many wonderful things that have become possible with modern day technology and the changes that we’ve seen over the past 100 years. But the changes that have taken place over the past few decades have been so sudden that it can be hard to remember and appreciate life before them.
There is something beautiful and unique about creating something through time and effort. The best analogy I have for this is comparing a microwave cake to a freshly baked oven cake. Both are delicious in their own ways, but the oven baked cake brings more than flavour, it also brings with it a form of comfort and appreciation that makes you pause.
If it wasn’t for isolation, I would have been too busy making my batches of microwave cakes in all aspects of my life, that I wouldn’t have taken the time to slow down and appreciate an oven baked cake. Everything in life had become too fast, too sudden and too efficient. Makes you lose patience for effort and it also makes you settle for quick easy wins instead of long-term and deep progress.
Listening to classical music has made me open up to parts of myself that I had put to sleep because I’ve been too busy to carefully take them out and explore them. Perhaps isolation feels so hard and heavy because we’ve only been taught how to make microwave cakes and don’t know how to get everything together to make an oven baked cake.
Perhaps we don’t have to learn the whole process, rather we just need to explore it and understand what’s involved and practice the various components on their own until we are ready to combine them all and make the cake.
Take some time to explore what brings you back to centre, look into some traditional outlets and explore what our ancestors used to pass the time, after all, before technology a lot of life would have been like isolation and yet they all thrived not just survived.
We will get through this.
Love Always,
M
Souloom™ 