Recently I’ve heard a lot of versions of “music is just the distraction we need right now”.
But that word ‘distraction’ has been like a rock in my shoe every time I hear it. Although the definition of distraction isn’t at all necessarily negative, I’d like to offer something else…
Music at its finest isn’t a distraction…music at its finest is a recalibration.
A recalibration of priorities, of relationships, of the way we spend our time and who we spend it with, the words we use, the care and attention we give. It’s transformative.
That’s the deepest power of music. Not to distract us from life, but to open our eyes fresher and deeper.
Oreo cookies, reorganizing the bookshelf, mowing the lawn twice in two days…those are distractions…at its finest, music isn’t in that category.
Let’s not seek to use music as a distraction. That would be to intentionally limit it’s power.
Music is a force. Forces change and transform.
Music isn’t a temporary way out, but a permanent way in.
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