The World's A Stage

Music.
Nothing more than specific sound frequencies ranging from 20-20,000 Hz that are picked up by the ear drum, turned into electrical signals, and sent to the brain to be translated into auditory thoughts.
Different frequencies can have whole number multiples or divisions of wavelengths, where the crests of the waves meet every so often, creating what we call harmony.
A "clash" of notes is when the different frequencies have very obscure wavelengths that almost never overlap causing a very unpleasant sound.
From a scientific point of view it seems pretty easy to understand, and if you understand how to counterpoint using this information, then music is fairly easy to compose as well. In fact, I have several friends that compose songs digitally, using computer software, and create whole songs in just a few days, as if it were nothing.
Then you have me. Sometimes it takes me days just to create one melody. But, my problem is that I always strive to find a rhythm that is so unique and different from the rest of the crowd so it takes me much longer than most to compose an entire song.

Everyone can 'hear' music and enjoy it, they can even compose it, but, do you really 'listen' to it? Do you Feel it's movement? Do you Understand it's mood and intent?
Singing up on stage during a performance, I have always been able to pick out the person that is really 'listening' to the music being created. They sit motionless, eyes closed, mouth open. They get goosebumps when a really beautiful section is played.
I know this because I have been that person. If anything, I recognize myself as a real 'listener' of music. I take it all in, I break it down in my head, all the parts, the instruments, the voices, the movements. I close my eyes and I see them visually in my mind. I Feel it with my entire body.
Sometimes during a really beautiful piece, I can feel my heart sink into the pit of my stomach. It is the best feeling in the world.

Music is beyond a doubt the best form of art that God bestowed to man. Many people can paint or sculpt from an image in their head, but, to create an entire piece of music from hundreds of notes and chords out of thin air, is something else entirely.
Ludwig Van Beethoven, my favorite composer, once said "Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
This man. He could not get the sound out of his head until he wrote the music down on paper. This man created nine beautiful symphonies, seven concertos, an opera, two masses, thirty-two piano sonatas, ten violin sonatas, five cello sonatas, sixteen string quartets, five string quintets, seven for piano trio, five for string trio, and perhaps a hundred or so other short works. There is no better example of a musical madman.
He is my idol.
I believe the closest thing to hearing the voice of God is music. He speaks to us through the vibrations on the air. He gives the power to create this music to only a divine few on this entire planet, in order to speak to us.
The music speaks to us, it speaks to our soul, our being. It flows through us and within us.
Did you know that right now, your entire body as a whole, is producing it's own unique frequency? A frequency that is entirely and utterly unique to you.
Sometimes I think that's how we subconsciously pick and choose which people we like and dislike.
Remember how I described Harmony? When two or more frequencies have whole number multiples of each other in order to be harmonious? Why can't that be true with our own personal frequencies and the frequencies of others? Have you ever noticed how you can meet someone and even though you may like them and they don't necessarily have any negative characteristics about them, you still have an uneasy feeling when you're around them? Your frequencies may be 'clashing'.
This may be why a close family or a group of really good friends get along so well. Admit it, even your family and friends have at least a few negative characteristics that you hate about them. Why then do you get along with them so well?
Harmony.
How about Love? I mean spousal love of course. Why is it that it just 'clicks' with some people and others it doesn't?
You could meet the most beautiful, amazing person in the world; they have everything you ever wanted in a person to spend your life with, but you just don't feel the 'chemistry' with them. Why is that?
Harmony.

See, Music is more than just a collection of frequencies. Music is life, it's everywhere, and everything has its own pitch, its own aura, its own flow. The earth is one big symphony, never-ending; doomed to play for its audience forever. But with every new person created, a new instrument is added to the orchestra and thus the piece changes slightly, every movement is different from those of the past.

So find your harmony in the world. Be the next Movement.
Compose your own way through the time you have on this earth.
And seek out the person that completes your chord the best.

All the world's a stage, play on it.