Life's Funny

In so many ways life is funny... but right now I guess I'll just mention quickly how a state of mind... or perhaps awareness can change anything.

Something caught me completely off guard today... it was something my band teacher said. For those of you who don't know, she's only five years older than me, perhaps less, but she gets it. She gets music, she gets life or at least gets it from my perspective... she makes that evident in how she teaches.

Regardless, I was caught off guard... we were talking about dynamics -a common enough topic- when she said, "You could be playing a symphony and nobody would know unless you made yourself heard!"

I'm sure she didn't mean for it to be taken figuratively, but I did anyways. I guess that's really a truth of life. If you want to be heard, rcognized, understood, loved, you have to put yourself out there; you have to make yourself heard. You have to make sure that you don't let life happen to you; that you happen to life. Make the world remember you or suffer the consequence of never having tried.