When Music Takes Over

Well the way I feel is the way I write It isn't like the thoughts of the man who lies There is a truth and it's on our side Dawn is coming Open your eyes Look into the sun as the new days rise

It's incredible how it is easy to change the vibe with the music. You were having one emotion, and there is just another one. Changing like a chameleon, leaving no memory of what you have thought about a moment ago.

And so music does to me. Helps me to lose myself to the point where I am disappearing into it. It takes over, it paints images in my head, it tells me bitter sweet tales of something that never will be.

Playing guitar is different though. It's more powerful each time you expose your vulnerability to an instrument. You fail. Over and over. Trying to pick up the right chord, strumming pattern or note - and good if you have a sense of hearing and the instrument is tuned!

Otherwise... It's a ton of good work - to play music. Some people are more natural with it, gifted and therefore, can fail less. But you got to put the work in.

Otherwise... accept your inferiority. Or let it go.

I did play guitar though tonight. Like the other day. Like I used to do a lot when I stayed at home in Minsk. Sometimes, two hours a day - which was like, everyday.

Failing. But continuing until I could play a song I like and sing along. Just like my father did, yet, he was better than me in playing the guitar.

But what else could have he done in his youth? He didn't have Internet. And wix.com.

I owe him and my mom a lot for building such a powerful bond with music. Exposure to good music at a early age... is like disciplining a certain kind of appreciation for something transcendental, like, teaching to feel.

I know not everyone feels the same about music, but hey, this is my USP.

Yet, it's beautiful. To be completely possessed by emotions, letting yourself go and just experiencing music. It is the vibration that makes your body shake from inside when you play an instrument, the point of which is just to play. It's the trembling of voice which we are experiencing when we sing.

That's life. And this is when we feel alive.

We'll do whatever just to stay alive.