"You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are"
Mr. Rogers
The current role that I am playing is that of a Music Camp Nurse. I'm surrounded by musicians, but I'm not particularly musical. Yesterday I sat and chatted with a young girl who plays so much cello that she has tendinitis in her wrist. In case you were wondering, that is a lot of cello playing. She is gifted and passionate about her music. In our conversation she asked me a simple question that I have been pondering ever since: "Are you sad you're not musical?"
I paused and thought.
No.
There are times when I'm jealous of other people's gifts and life paths. I wish I could sing like that. I wish I could dance like that. I wish I speak like that. I wish I could run like that. On and on goes the discontented heart.
But in my small moment of clarity I knew that the things I fill my life with are truly and deeply fulfilling for me. My story doesn't happen to include perfect pitch or being a child prodigy. That doesn't stop me from enjoying what other people produce with their lives and that doesn't stop me from learning to play the ukulele.
Its all a balance right? We produce and want to try hard to produce the best stuff we can. But we recognize that everyone is gifted differently and produces different things. Don't compare. I can't be everything... so I want to cultivate myself as a purposeful something.
So I'm rededicating my blog to that.
"Decide what to
be and go be it."
The Avett Brothers
I laughed out loud at the exchange between you and Miss Cello. Lily (complete with a yogurt mustache) looked over and asked me what was so funny ;o)
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