The Strings of Life

Play the strings, create your harmony

Music is a part of me, a part of my life without which I would feel undoubtedly empty.  It elevates my mood, makes me reflect on myself, brings me peace, but the most important of all, it teaches me a lot of things about living.  Yes, living!  Our heart beat is the steady rhythm that marks our aliveness; we dance to it throughout our lives, trying to catch every beat and looking to make all the right moves.  This rhythm is more than just simple notes though; it is a harmony of different chords from different scales, progressing at changing tempos.  There are times where we encounter chords which are harder to play than others but it is only with practice and calloused fingers that you learn how to play them.  In the same manner, the strings of life are never just pulled individually and exclusively.  We often have different strings being pulled all at once, but it is with experience that we can smoothen out the sound and harmonize them.  There are many times you will need to adjust the strings to make the melody sound better.  Your choices will not always improve the melody, but even making it worse will teach you something.  Likewise, we have innumerable decisions to make in a day itself, let alone even considering our whole life.  It may take some terrible decisions to learn how to make the right one, but once you learn that, no one can take it away.  What matters is that you learn from your experiences.  Keep in mind that the rhythm, of music and of life, is not infinite so you have to make the most of it while it is possible to do so.