Can you recall the last time you listened to music? Specifically, do you remember a short segment of the song where the sound went shallow, nearly quiet and suddenly there was a breakdown?
You can find the use of breakdowns in all types of music: heavy screamo, flamboyant alternative music, dub step and if you listen closely, you can find the breakdowns that happen in a classical Mozart song.
If you can, I encourage you to take a moment now and play a song that you know has a very noticeable break down and try to relate how you feel during the transition. May I suggest “Action is the Anecdote” by And Then There Were None as it is the song that inspired this post.
Now, I can imagine that you will rock along with the song and as it prepares for the breakdown, you prepare as well. Since the music has nearly paused, you can feel your heart beat a couple times before the breakdown occurs. If it’s a great enough lead to a breakdown, you may even get goosebumps. As the breakdown occurs, it is as if you were just given wings. The experience involves getting built up with an extreme form of unknown emotion and anticipation that is only released when the breakdown occurs.
What does this have to do with a perfect life moment? – Everything
It’s unlikely you can recall the last time you had the same experience in a life situation because life adds an additional step you have to go through.
Let me explain, everything is going smoothly in life until it begins to dim. You start feeling slightly depressed and things aren’t going the way you want, but nothing so bad that you can’t survive. As life flat lines at a low level, a surge of anticipation begins to seep into all of your nerves and before you realize it, your life’s scale instantly shoots up and out of the ordinary.
This moment never happens.
In life, the only way you can experience a sudden burst of happy progression is after hitting bottom – not flat lining above it. The closest analogy to this is to work off the saying the harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
The following three phase process would describe life’s perfect moment. Think of the first moment as a ball falling at it’s normal rate. The second phase is like magnifying the moment before impact that seems to last a life time. The third phase is the ball suddenly springing upward without hitting the ground.
However, in life the ball must always hit the ground in order to bounce higher then one could think possible.
Life’s Perfect Moment Is the moment when times get tough, a combination of excitement and anticipation overcomes all of your senses and you know that your quality and appreciation of life will – before you can fully comprehend – it completely amaze you. Why does this not happen? Why do we have to hit bottom? Why is it the only way for us to experience life’s perfect moment is in music?
Stay Positive and Defy Gravity
Garth E. Beyer
On a side note, while I was thinking about the ball analogy I realized something of key importance. Too often people will tell you that success is getting back up when you fall down. I say that success is taking the risks that made you fall down in the first place. Cheers
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