We work until we can’t work anymore, then we think.
Many people can’t handle the process of thinking. It is sometimes too painful. The past contains ghosts, the future contains the spector of the unknown. They are both trapped in the present with nowhere to go. It seems that the only course possible is to block out the reality of our own existence. This is the time when this blocking invites the addictions of drinks such as alcohol and anything else that will blur or even eliminate the reality of the present time. Anything that will allow us to just remain suspended in time and space. This can happen at any time and at any age. Any time there is no longer any hope, no one to understand, or no one to help in any way. Rational thinking is blocked.
Then comes the ultimate thought process: What am I doing? Why am I here? Where have I been and where am I going? Have I had enough of everything since nothing makes any sense any more? Have I exhausted all possibilities? Is this, then, the end? If so, why not take the leap forward into the vast unknown? How quick and painless would this be to ultimately find lasting peace and unconditional love and rest from all of the uncertainty of life here on earth? Is there an answer for those people in this circumstance that makes enough sense, and a powerful enough case to make in order to change their thinking? Is there anything at all that will deter anyone who is in such a downward spiral? This is one of the most vital and important communications that we can make to another person. A compelling reason to justify their existence.
Prayer, promises, logic, intellect, books, films, TV, radio, streaming. None of these can penetrate as deeply as music with its myriad of styles, moods, feelings and emotions. But, in order to reach deeply into any psyche, the text must be eliminated, for it forces us once again into the present. Only with instrumental music can we lose our our perception of reality in the present time and begin to reach the deep recesses of our minds. Only with instrumental music can we combat the feelings and emotions of the illogical and restore the balance of our earth and universe with its natural laws. Instrumental music obeys these laws by the sounds of order and disorder and then re-order. Instrumental music is uncluttered with daily life and the past and the future. It exists only in the present, only in our own space and time. It allows us to think more clearly and more deeply.
If we could only experience this concept, it might be possible to communicate it to those who need to be rescued from the brink of their own extinction. This, however, is a process to be learned first by ourselves and then passed on to our children who can then have the capacity to understand the process among themselves and then to pass it on to future generations. This could possibly save our society and all people, in contrast to the superficial “causes” and “fads” that we are inundated with by an incessant and even immoral media. Maybe this could even change the basic thinking and reasoning for all types of media who ostensibly have no collective conscience. This could cause a freedom unknown in recorded history, honesty in the reporting and communication of events as they occur without editorializing before and after. A media that thinks before acting. Everyone would benefit.
We can only hope that we all actually learn to think independently and to listen instrumentally.