Monday, November 19, 2012
Turning Life into a Movie
It's crazy how dramatic music can make life. On Saturday, I went to a huge fancy Cystic Fibrosis gala event with my family, and at my dad had been asked to give a speech about our family's experience with CF. My dad is a wonderful speaker and speech writer, and I had to stand on stage with him as he gave the speech. By the end of his speech, half of the room was in tears, and I finally broke down as he finished. I probably would have been able to compose myself within a minute if it hadn't been for the dramatic, soundtrack-like music that was played as we left the stage. As my family and I wove (weaved?) through the hundred of people sitting at tables and applauding us, suddenly everybody stood up and turned to us. This standing ovation, combined with the hundreds of tear-stained faces looking at us, combined with the loud dramatic soundtrack playing, made me feel like I was in the middle of a movie. It was such a powerful moment; not only because of the extreme gratitude I felt, but because of the music too! I feel that if there was a way to have a soundtrack to life all the time, to enhance emotions, life would be much more exciting and dramatic. And there would probably be more crying.
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Crying is fun but it would be really disruptive if it were happening to us all the time. Sometimes I make an ironic or drown-out soundtrack in my own head to ignore bad things or make them seem odd, such as jazz when people are arguing or hard rock when I feel sick. I also sometimes force songs into my head if the moment seems right, just to be clever.
ReplyDeleteI wish life had less drama, or perhaps more. More would allow us to perform catharsis more often and not get so stressed out, but less would make life so simple and clean and happy. Maybe I just feel that most drama is negative in my life.