I haven't seen music videos for a long time since I finished my school days and got into a professional life. I thought I didn't have time to search for videos that I liked and would like to watch again and again. But even though I didn't notice clearly, here we got the change of the way we enjoy worlds' entertainment. Music videos are not only on TV but on Apple Music and YouTube, with more flexible and intelligent attraction. I can enjoy them as easily as I read books, and more comfortably than watching them on television as I used to. I started to think, that music videos are for people who really don't have time. They can attract you, make you happy, make you imagine and send messages. I never imagined that these 5-minutes short films can be powerful enough to change the state of mind at once. I found Taylor Swift's new video "Delicate", which is fantastic, hilarious, happy and really charming. Today's music video seems somehow different from those I watched every day in late 90's, and it feels like more personal. The musicians, performers are incredible stars for sure, but they seems to be a bit closer and real person who is not only talented and celebrated but also struggles and get confused. This might be a perspective of grown-ups. Taylor's "Delicate" has a wonderful dance sequence almost like "Singing in the Rain".
A mentor is supposed to be someone who guides young generation. But I think life is a learning at every step and every age, and we need our mentor maybe for all our life. That is not because we don't get mature as we get older, but we learn a lot, more and more, than the times we are younger. Learning and growing up never ends in our life. A mentor doesn't always have to be an elderly people but maybe a friend, or a person who you have never met but keeps inspiring you. Life never has a final answer or a defined goal but always has change and growth. Maybe keeping mentoring other people leads you to meet your wonderful mentor.
When I was a kid I used to play with LEGO. I loved this toy so much and I played with it all day long, every day, for hours. My big brother had a series of spaceship LEGO and mine was a series of town buildings and knight's castle. We shared them all the time but I remember my favorite was to build a normal house and structure a street. There was something really exciting in creating a space, interior, garden, robust wall, stairs and window. I remember when I was playing with LEGO and creating my architecture, everything was totally left behind, except the sound of radio or music I was listening to with playing. These time was definitely one of the happiest moments in my memory and I am now wondering how I could possibly reproduce the moment in my current age and interest and the way of using my time. I suppose it will be possible.
There are so many great stories and novels all around the world. I have my own favorite books. I like to read them again and again to the extent I get to memorize the dialogue and storyline. Still I keep reading them to purely enjoy the storytelling. What makes me keep reading the same book? It's partly because simply I like text itself, but surely it owes much to the charm of an unique world of the story built by imagination and described entirely by words. Sometimes I wonder if there is a "counter writer" to my favorite stories, which is, an author who descries the same story from the perspective of the major counter-part, co-star in the story. For example it's like "Pride and Prejudice" written from the perspective of Mr. Darcy. Even if it does exist, well-written in true Jane Austen's style and wit, it would never surpass the original, but I would very much like to read the story and can even imagine the work. Such imagination is possible because the story is great. A masterpiece is such an immortal.
Spending two months with experiencing series of injury and its recovery, I think it was the time to learn about my body. And the learning never stops and I hope I can be wiser enough to use my body in the best way, in the better way than ever. I practice dancing, Tai-Chi, and kickboxing, these action teach me that body will slowly learn and after continuing practice and effort, eventually it will start to move as I wish. But body is a very delicate equipment that is structured with high precision. It's not easy to get rid of unwise practice and replace them with good one. Still it's worth challenging. For example I need to keep: - my ribs stretching and keeping the distance between pelvis - my ankles smooth and flexible - my head sitting right over the spine - my scapula movable - my toes standing firmly on the ground - my shoulders relaxed It is not going to be easy to stay in the ideal posture. But at least I know how to do.
