I play music with a friend every Tuesday evening - been doing this for years now. He considers me to have "talent", while he says he has to work hard at it - not being a talent himself. Sometimes he gets together with other people to play and says then that it's a matter of "exercising the right of non-talented musicians to still play music".
I understand this because I know a lot of people who would love to play music but don't think they're allowed to because they can't play well - as if they need permission or approval from someone else to do what they feel like doing, for fear of being judged. What WOULD people think of them? This is one of those peculiar human traits we carry in us that cause us to censure ourselves continually, denying ourselves great pleasures and discoveries because of some contitioned sense of shame that we might offend the feelings of others. And by judging others in the same way, we suppress their freedom in being themselves too. What a mess! Who thought this one up? This all came to mind this morning while I browsed Facebook. An ex-colleague of mine from a school where I used to work has "come out"... admitted she is a "secret writer", and let it be known to all her friends that she publishes a blog. And I know how she feels - I went through the same feelings as she when I first started writing online ( a few years ago now)... don't tell anyone you know, I mean... what WILL they think of me? Why do we feel it as a "coming out"? Why should we have to "come out" of anything? - especially among our friends where you should feel comfortable to be who you are without their judgement. And why do we even care to judge even our friends about anything they want to do? We have to stop judging people like this. We have to stop caring what other people think of us. We have to learn to BE who WE want to be, and DO what WE want to do. Because if we can't even do this within our community of friends and aquaintances then we've all got a long way to go before we learn to accept and respect the sovereignity and freedom of the rest of mankind to be and do as they wish. By the way, I also write on a blog, I play music, I meditate, I'm into spirituality, I believe in aliens... and I smoke. There, I said it, it's out, and I dont care what you think!
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