I had to listen to this twice. The personal story you relate is so achingly beautiful. I can picture you in my mind's eye being subject to the whims and personal failures of the adults in your life and suddenly seeing this way of asserting your personal autonomy and rising above the situation that you knew you did nothing to create. It's startling to me that what opened John Farmer's heart and mind was that small bit of beauty he heard in the flute. He wasn't listening to Palestrina, or listening to a symphony orchestra, just a lone flute. And that music was enough to suggest to him an entirely different way of being. I have a lot more thoughts about this but they're jumbled and not well formed. Anyway, thanks, Lubna for talking about this.💛
@@EremiasRanwolf-d6z Thank you, Jeremy, for watching my video and for writing your insightful comment. I agree that it is very startling and beautiful to think that the melody being played by a lone flute was what influenced John Farmer. I feel similarly sometimes when I listen to beautiful music; it stirs something within me. And for some reason, when the song involves fewer instruments/voices it feels more intimate. It feels as though the message of the song is being directed toward me as an individual. The passage about John Farmer, as well as my recounting of my personal connection to it, serve to illustrate the importance of the humanities-things like music, art, literature, and philosophy-in our lives. Music-even a single song-can change a person’s life (as it did for John Farmer). Books and literature can also change a person’s life, as Walden (and the many successive books I read after that, as a result) did for me. It shows us that we, too, can influence others and can stir others to action through what we write, say, and create. 🦋💫
"I am unique and have my own gifts and talents, and I brought something to the world that no one else could bring. And I found myself...it's a lifelong search--or a lifelong creative endeavor, I should say, to become oneself and to grow into oneself and to find oneself". --From your video "Creativity vs. Competitiveness."
@@EremiasRanwolf-d6z Thank you for quoting me from my own video, Jeremy. I have always, since reading Walden during my junior year of high school, been a proponent of individualism-the intrinsic worth of the individual, and his/her power to create. Another text that deeply influenced me when I was in high school was the novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand. I believe that each individual is a whole beautiful world in and of him/herself. No two are alike. 🌸✨
@@blancoCuervo Thank you, Bradley. I am very happy that my video inspired you. Your dreams will become reality, insofar as you believe in yourself and constantly remind yourself of how valuable and irreplaceable you are. We got this! 🌺🌷🌸
I had to listen to this twice. The personal story you relate is so achingly beautiful. I can picture you in my mind's eye being subject to the whims and personal failures of the adults in your life and suddenly seeing this way of asserting your personal autonomy and rising above the situation that you knew you did nothing to create.
It's startling to me that what opened John Farmer's heart and mind was that small bit of beauty he heard in the flute. He wasn't listening to Palestrina, or listening to a symphony orchestra, just a lone flute. And that music was enough to suggest to him an entirely different way of being. I have a lot more thoughts about this but they're jumbled and not well formed. Anyway, thanks, Lubna for talking about this.💛
@@EremiasRanwolf-d6z Thank you, Jeremy, for watching my video and for writing your insightful comment. I agree that it is very startling and beautiful to think that the melody being played by a lone flute was what influenced John Farmer. I feel similarly sometimes when I listen to beautiful music; it stirs something within me. And for some reason, when the song involves fewer instruments/voices it feels more intimate. It feels as though the message of the song is being directed toward me as an individual.
The passage about John Farmer, as well as my recounting of my personal connection to it, serve to illustrate the importance of the humanities-things like music, art, literature, and philosophy-in our lives. Music-even a single song-can change a person’s life (as it did for John Farmer). Books and literature can also change a person’s life, as Walden (and the many successive books I read after that, as a result) did for me. It shows us that we, too, can influence others and can stir others to action through what we write, say, and create. 🦋💫
"I am unique and have my own gifts and talents, and I brought something to the world that no one else could bring. And I found myself...it's a lifelong search--or a lifelong creative endeavor, I should say, to become oneself and to grow into oneself and to find oneself". --From your video "Creativity vs. Competitiveness."
@@EremiasRanwolf-d6z Thank you for quoting me from my own video, Jeremy. I have always, since reading Walden during my junior year of high school, been a proponent of individualism-the intrinsic worth of the individual, and his/her power to create. Another text that deeply influenced me when I was in high school was the novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand. I believe that each individual is a whole beautiful world in and of him/herself. No two are alike. 🌸✨
This is a good one Lubna !! Focus on my strenghts and work on my weaknesses. And perhaps dreams may become reality. As always keep going WE GOT THIS!!
@@blancoCuervo Thank you, Bradley. I am very happy that my video inspired you. Your dreams will become reality, insofar as you believe in yourself and constantly remind yourself of how valuable and irreplaceable you are. We got this! 🌺🌷🌸