Thread: What keeps you alive?

I agree that friends can give you plenty of reason to live, but it's pretty hard to find good friends. I almost always stay at home and I'm not interested in looking for friends. If you have them that's great, but I can't bring myself to bet on it. Maybe physics is the way to go and fill my free time with violin playing. Physics is pretty interesting and damn challenging. The violin is beautiful soundwise and it looks beautiful, it's really difficult to get the sound you want but it's very rewarding. I have great friends but they just seem to be too busy. So yeah...

EDIT: Even physically I love the violin. The instrument grows on you. You play things just by thinking about them without knowing how you're doing it. The bow on the strings, your fingers on the fingerboard, holding it is softly, not too tight, not too loose. You have to be 100% aware of all the sensations and sounds. The possibilities are endless. It not only takes everything in the moment, but it also takes a large chunk of your life to master it. But when it works, man... When it clicks... It's just touching. To hear the music you always listen to, but now you are the one producing it, it's coming right from your soul. I have been a lazy bastard for way too long. Look at me, I became a poet just by thinking about my violin Right now I can feel how it felt to play. It's only been about a month but it feels like forever. And I'm not even that good, I sound like crap most of the time, just try to imagine how a master feels about his instrument.

Originally Posted by Ginsan

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EDIT: Even physically I love the violin.

The instrument grows on you.

You play things just by thinking about them without knowing how you're doing it. The bow on the strings, your fingers on the fingerboard, holding it is softly, not too tight, not too loose.

You have to be 100% aware of all the sensations and sounds.

The possibilities are endless. It not only takes everything in the moment, but it also takes a large chunk of your life to master it.

But when it works, man... When it clicks... It's just touching.

To hear the music you always listen to, but now you are the one producing it, it's coming right from your soul.

I have been a lazy bastard for way too long. Look at me, I became a poet just by thinking about my violin

Right now I can feel how it felt to play. It's only been about a month but it feels like forever. And I'm not even that good, I sound like crap most of the time, try to imagine how a master feels about his instrument.

Off topic, sorry, but ...

I was shopping (mid Feb) and came across this busker. His violin made me cry. I talked to him and searched for him on Youtube. Here he is in Melbourne, busking. Listen and you will know why he brought me to ecstatic tears :

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Sky's Violin - Amazing Grace - Melbourne: https://youtu.be/0uZi6uAdB6Q

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