Musical agenda

Music is honey for the ears. I keep getting more and more fascinated every time I hear a good tune. For one, I wonder how people can actually think up such beautiful tunes. Some tunes just get stuck in your head and refuse to leave- it’s a civil disobedience movement inside your head!

And then there are times when a lyricist captures emotions so beautifully in words, that it is hard to believe that a fellow human being can be so inhumanly genius.

Frankly, I guess when god was distributing musical skill, I was mowing the lawn. (That is the closest I could get to the English translation of the classic Hindi saying ‘ghaas kaatne gaya tha’).

I am bad at singing, like really bad. And still, I was in the school choir. School does make you believe in yourself. Never mind how disillusioned that belief may be!

Now, in college I wish to take up a lot of activities. Singing can certainly never be one of them.

But being in a band is so cool. The reality that I can never be in a band makes me really sad.

Then I realize that a band actually has other members apart from the vocalist. Perhaps I can learn to play the guitar. I tried it once before. The memories come flooding back, and with them the realization that I was the worst student in my guitar class.

Drums? No, my coordination is worse than my singing.

So, eventually I reconcile myself to the fact that the only way I can be anywhere near a band in college is if I have front row tickets to a music concert. Sigh.