Your Life Is a Song 💽

May I present you a marvelous piece of poetry from a certain Adele Laurie Blue Adkins:

"Everybody loves the things you do from the way you talk to the way you move.

Everybody here is watching you 'cause you feel like home—you're like a dream come true.

– – You look like a movie.

You sound like a song.

This reminds me of when we were young.

Let me photograph you in this light in case it is the last time that we might be exactly like we were, before we realized we were sad of getting old—it made us restless.

It was just like a movie.

It was just like a song."

Inspired by these words, I find myself asking these sorts of questions:

• What if I talked in a more cinematic way?
• What if I moved as charismatically as Brad Pitt in F1?
• What does the soundtrack of my life sound like?

These questions suggest we can curate the aesthetics of our lives intentionally to a certain extent. And as a consequence, I think it makes life more fun!

The soundscape of your life holds immense significance whether you realize it or not.

Even if you're deaf, your life has a soundscape. Your soundscape is silence.

A certain duo called Simon and Garfunkel knew that silence has a sound. 😉

Silence complements sound—the same way white space complements filled space, or how a quiet morning complements a bustling afternoon.

One can't exist meaningfully without the other.

In a way, life consists of a pendulum motion between opposites.

You can never reach an optimal outcome without the pendulum motion between the highs and the lows. The point of a rollercoaster is literally to embrace the experience of the highs and the lows.

That's why our lives don't usually consist of only silence.

What sorts of sounds do you let interrupt it?

You can't necessarily control whether your neighbor is drilling something at 11 pm, but most of the time we are in control of our home soundscape.

My home soundscape includes mostly silence.

Sometimes that silence is interrupted by me singing the latest earworm that’s ringing in my head.

Sometimes the space is filled with Maria Callas' opera arias at full blast while I'm cleaning.

Sometimes it's filled with speech from videos and podcasts. It depends on my mood.

Incorporating music into routine activities as well as more festive moments is a good idea.

That's how you create the soundtrack of your life.

It changes your whole experience of living.

In the best case, it makes everything more cinematic.

And how fortunate are we in this day and age that we can stream music anywhere, anytime?

Mozart would never have dreamed of such a situation in the 18th century. 😀

Our lives can indeed feel like movies with complete soundtracks much easier than ever before in human history.

What's your movie like?

Bisous,

Elle