"Notice: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR"

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin


Okay, I've always said that I cannot live without music. Pretty much everyone has said that. But can you actually imagine you life without it? I mean, nothing. Not even a hum. Never in you life have you ever heard a song, a tune, a masterpiece, nothing. no music of any kind. Not even a child humming a tune.
It doesn't exist.
But here's the thing, you've never heard it, so you wouldn't be missing it.
But really, can you imagine life without it?

Have you ever seen the movie Equilibrium? I was thinking about that movie earlier and... well wait.

Okay, quick plot outline. It's set in the future after 4 world wars (I think) The government makes you take a shot to where you cannot feel emotion of any kind. So that means nothing that could prevoke it. So, no art, no color, no poetry, no books, no music.

And of course, as you have probably guessed, the main guy in the movie starts to feel emotion.
So he's a cop and when he finds people who are going against the law and feeling, he arrests them and destroys the art, poetry, color, books, music, ect. that they have with them.

There is a part where he is in the basement and is supposed to be gathering the stuff up but he gets curious and turns on the old record player. It starts play... Bach? Beethoven? I don't remember.
Anyway, he just breaks down sobbing when he hears the music, which he has never in his life heard. Because he's never experienced that kind of emotion.


Now I know that's a movie, but imagine never hearing music. Living your entire life, from birth to death, never hearing anything of that sort.
Can you really imagine a life completly without music?

And does anyone really realize what a large role music plays in our life/ I mean, it's not just something to listen to. It's a story, whether it's a piano sonata, a soft ballad, a rock song, a pop number. Whether it has lyrics to acompany it or not. It all tells a story.
And even if one person hears something that sounds like death (to me, that would be country), to the person next to them it could be one of the most beautiful things they've heard.

In a way, music brings us together. It mixes our cultures, our tastes, our livestyles. It show us just how different we are. But then it reminds us what makes us the same.
It's what makes us human.

I mean, just think about all the passion, all the history, all the emotion that goes into a song.
What would life be like if we never knew that?


Just something to think about.