What if every rehearsal started and ended on time?
If everyone returned phone calls in a timely fashion?
If everyone had the same idea of professionalism and acted accordingly?
If no one ever played sharp?
If 4/4 bars were never conducted in 6 by accident?
If stupid mistakes with recording equipment were never made?
If intimate moments were never made horribly awkward by stupid comments?
If everyone always cleaned up after themselves, literally and figuratively?
If students called ahead to let you know they weren't going to show up, always?
If everyone came prepared?
If the person you wanted to hang out with had a schedule compatible with yours?
If no one ever called each other names, no one ever lost their cool?
If everyone interpreted situations alike, resulting in no more mis-communications?
If everyone liked the same music, and therefore no one disliked the music you like?
If everyone saw things the same way?
If everyone understood you?
If everyone always agreed?
What then?
Take away all that, and you're taking away quite a bit of what makes up your day. Conflict, disappointment, less than perfection is exactly the stuff that life is made of. But maybe all-of-the-above is not so negative after all. Maybe it is just the turns life gives, the cards you are dealt, and each new situation is to be embraced, or confronted, or considered. Where there are upsets, there are breakthroughs. And besides, if all-of the-above was always, you wouldn't really appreciate it anyway. Hmmm....nice.
*Side note: this post is not meant to imply I'm in a bad mood. It's true, rehearsals lately have been pretty rough. But I've actually still been in a pretty great mood. So this post is actually optimistic, not pessimistic, I just decided to come at it from a different angle. Not sure if it works. Trying it on. More concrete news and reflections in the near future.
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If everyone understood you?
Ooo--way over exposed--way too vulnerable and way too scary. I could be gotten even worse than I am now.
If everyone always agreed?
We wouldn't need lawyers for one thing. US would either be in Iraq or out of Iraq. I think it would be ok, as long as everyone agreed with me. Otherwise it would be a mess.
what if every rehearsal started and ended on time.
Well-what if it did? Who is the time keeper? People would synchronize watches and show up on time, I suppose if there were consequences to being late. They would show up early. (LE seminars and courses are known to start on time--did you hear the one about the guy who was doing a cruise course,with a $10,000 price tag? He was (only) 15 minutes late and the boat left without him. He missed the whole thing and got his life out of it.)I think there would be a whole new level of integrity in the world and a whole new level of respect for each other.
If no one every played sharp.Isn't there some instance where playing sharp is good?
If everyone always cleanedup after themselves, literally and figuratively. Then what would I complain about?
If the person you wanted to hang out with had a schedule compatible with yours.
Now that would be heavenly
Hahahah Some of these make me laugh.
*Hugs*
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