Thursday, February 9, 2006
The magic of ..
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Some melodies are quite simply, magical. I pick one and go into raptures about it for hours, only to sigh at the futility of trying to imprison the intangible in words. I know I could never articulate how I feel, yet I hopelessly try. It touches my heart, I say, and then realize how facile and commonplace that sounds. How naive it is to try and quantify a feeling so sublime. But not quite ready to give up yet, I break it down into its elements — the voice, the words, the mood .. but I know there is something more, something I cannot see .. like a soft breeze that tosses them all together into a beautiful whirlwind. A silence within the sounds, that speaks to me. No one, but me.
I feel its presence around me always. Sometimes as it sweeps me up into a storm, leaving me breathless and gasping for more .. and at other times, as it slows down to softly set me back on the ground, before resuming its unstoppable happy little dance. And yet when I try to hold it and describe it, it plays hide-and-seek with me. Thumbs its nose at me playfully, as it hops and skips away, leaving me smiling to myself, wondering why I even tried. I gaze at it dreamily, as it gives words and form to emotions I always felt, but was never aware of. An unknown force writing new pages of my journal.
I hum the song, languidly caressing each note and reluctantly moving on to the next one .. but the notes tug at me, wanting me to touch them one more time .. and I find myself singing them over and over again. Till they becomes a part of me, permeating my smile, my hopes, my desires .. till I am one with them. Till I am complete.
Some melodies are like some people .. they come into your life, washing over your senses like the waves, while you carefully try to preserve the ocean you’ve just discovered, in the palm of your hand. You could spend a lifetime trying to put into words how they make you feel, but you know you never can.
And even while you try, you fall deeper and deeper in love. Such are the melodies of your heart.
you have broken the promise of more crappy posts that you made on the second budday of this blog…
nice post though… very very well written…
my problem with music is that, i either dont feel the way that you have described or when i do, i dont have the words to articulate them… so i guess music to me is very simble and straight and ofcourse soothing…and btw… SP Balasubramaniam is GOD
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 12:25 AM
And what melody were you humming while writing this beautiful post?..:-)
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 12:51 AM
Very well put…..There are times when the true beauty of music explicitly comes to mind. Good music and lyrics one knows, recognises and appreciates are like a security blanket. They bring the warmth of memories of good times. And at the same time, they also create within us a sense of admiration, permitting us to marvel at a skill on display; a talent which dazzles and enthralls, splendid in every sense, one which promises a repeated but slightly different pleasure in every subsequent listening……and yes you’re right, documenting that feeling that a particular song can give you in the right words is impossible. But we try, and try….specially when we’re trying to convince someone to listen to said awesome music…
Just my 2 cents, of course….:)
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 12:59 AM
u’ve been tagged?
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 6:29 AM
I felt the same way when i am eating upma today evening :-)
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 9:31 AM
megha .. just wanted to say the melody in your thoughts resonate deeply. thanks for sharing them.
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 9:34 AM
would have felt thricer happy if i made it on my own,…
ha ha ha ha…
there is a difference between people and songs…
“tinaga tinaga gaareylu cheydeykkutaayi annaatttu… ”
except for some evergreen classics…. most songs i felt bored after sometime …
…as for people….. there will be some people… who become more sweeter with the time…
…..( origin of sweetheart ;-) isn’t it… ??? )
can see the signs of valentines day on your blog……
Happy Birthday To your BLOG… and Happy Valentines Day To You ( 5 days in Advance ) … 1 day each for the each letter of the word megha ;-) )
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 9:39 AM
Megha,
As Nandu asked…what was the melody that you were humming that made you to write such a nice post. You have beautifully described what one goes through when completely immersed in the comfort of a fantastic melody.
I recently tried to analyze in a blog (Nov 29 Post) about how we feel what we feel with music …but in the end, its beyond analysis.
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 9:51 AM
Very Very beautifully put, just that melodies can be hummed back but people, once they leave, somehow leave for ever..
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 10:08 AM
music as an infectious child or playful child like beau (more of the latter)…valentines day indeed!
A song on the radio that hits you like a long lost crush..your heart skips a beat…it cannot be her..it cannot be so long ago…is it love if it feels so strong after so many years….
addendum:
LED ZEP IS GOD!!!
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 10:13 AM
*utterly confoosed as usual* Huh?… What?…. who?…. where?….. What is it that I’m missing here? Oh wait.. you said songs? Like Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters - a song I kept playing on repeat on my player? I guess that IS a good song indeed .. but jokes apart, sounds like a fine post from someone eagerly awaiting a Valentine’s day gift, eh? ;)
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 11:10 AM
*Random lines for the week* - You can put a song into a person, but you can’t put a person into a song :P
And the edit comment feature is awesome! Gives me time to come back and abuse your comment space, instead of my comment space (evil I am. Good that I am,no?).
now that I am editing this comment, Ow aboot dis?
You talk about meejic and songs, but an absence of Megha-Tunes (no, no,, not like i-Tunes) like “dhinkichikichika…”. why so? are we getting serious with stuff here? if so, pliss pardon Moi. Moi is always the jack-ass and the class-clown (if you didn’t guess that one)
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 4:28 PM
Wow, quite a way to start the third year. Is this the sign of things to come ? I’m all for this poetic mood of yours.
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 5:51 PM
Chookar mere mann ko kiya tune kya ishaaara
Badla ye mausam laage pyara jag saaara !
Well thats what I have been hummin for the past couple of days ! lol
Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 6:15 PM
Wow. Very well described. Hmmm..I never looked at melodies like that. Now I am tempted to. Liked the sentence “Some melodies are like some people .. they come into your life, washing over your senses like the waves, while you carefully try to preserve the ocean you’ve just discovered, in the palm of your hand”.
Friday, February 10, 2006 @ 2:32 AM
true true…. and then those people would go away and all that you are left with is sadness and poignant indescribable memories……like a sad song
enjoy the sweetness while you can
Friday, February 10, 2006 @ 5:02 AM
[Rumpy] Thank you. Glad you liked. I guess, different things move each of us differently. What I feel about music, you might feel about something else. This was just an attempt to describe the feeling itself. A feeling about a song, a place, a person .. or perhaps a moment that brings them all together.
[RT] No one melody, to be honest. Was really a combination of a mood, a thought, a feeling .. everything :)
[Nandu] Very well said. It is a feeling to be experienced by the soul, not spoken in words. And yet we try.
[prerona] Um? This post isn’t a response to a tag, if that’s what you’re asking. Of course, now you’ve gone and tagged me, as I just noticed. Why O why! :)
[Dina] Thank you.. very glad you liked. And thrilled to have you stop by here.
[sri] You feel the same way about upma, hm? I am not one to judge, so if upma is what rings your bell, then so be it :) Oh and having stopped by your blog and read some of your posts, I think you should seriously consider renaming your blog to The Chronicles of Upma or something. When it plays such an important part in your life, it deserves a place of honor, don’t you think?
And contrary to impressions, this post is completely unconnected to Valentine’s Day. But happy V-day to you too, nonetheless :)
[Bhanu] Thank you. and it wasn’t any one song. More of an attempt to describe a constant feeling one has when there’s music in your heart :)
[Hokie] So true that .. and we are left holding on to memories, much like water in the palm of our hand. Thank you. Glad you liked.
[iii] *smile* A bit of both. But more than anything else, the feeling itself as a continuous melody in your heart. But nah, nothing to do with V-day. For that we’ll do something a little .. um .. unconventional, perhaps :)
[Sriram] Eeks! Ugh. Someone eagerly awaiting a Valentine’s day gift? Double UGH. Tsk tsk.
And you are always welcome to abuse this commentspace. Even if you were not welcome, you’d still do it, so I might as well make my peace with it, yes? :) And I talk about serious stuff so that next time people groan at my nonsense, I can point them to my serious writing and say - That’s the alternative. See, it is all just a ruse to stump my readers, nothing else :)
[tafosi] Thank you! Hard to say how often we’ll write something like this, but given that we don’t usually take ourselves very seriously, it is unlikely to be frequent. But glad you liked :)
[Shiva] Lovely song :)
[Smiley] Thank you.
[jethro] Sometimes happy ditties, sometimes melancholic tunes. But the melodies in your heart always remain.
Friday, February 10, 2006 @ 10:48 AM
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
What you have described is the heard melodies leading to those inside, unheard…
Saturday, February 11, 2006 @ 3:51 AM
[Megha] thanks for the humor from your side.. … me just kidding… not to hurt your feelings about love and the songs. here u go with
Unadulterated …
Passionate …
Maniac …
Addicted …
me .. newbie TO BLOG.. so meelanti guruvula daggara shishyarikam cheyddamanukuntunnanu… ;-)
gurudakshina gaa upma cheysi peydatanu.. ( just kididng ) … and sorry for taking up so much space on your blog which is as sweet as honey with words powerful than swords and songs melodious like old classics of illayaraja..
Saturday, February 11, 2006 @ 11:30 AM
Something was said about Music being the food of _____, So I am not sure where you are headed bu all the best :)
Saturday, February 11, 2006 @ 6:25 PM
Beautifully expressed. Suddenly I feel this blog is staring to make lot of sense. Nahin! yeh awnyay hain ! *Imagine a melodramatic Raakhee scream in a Shubash Ghai movie.*
Can the real Megha stand up and start penning the next blog please.
Sunday, February 12, 2006 @ 9:34 PM
hmm, avoiding the v-day rush by publishing early, hunh ? :) no matter how much u deny…this was definitely v’day flavor! well written! btw, u misspelled ‘maladies’ in the last sentence there ;)
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 @ 3:46 AM
…yes and some are like people who come into your life, and throw you into raptures about how terribly smitten you are… until you get tired of the monotony and repetition (like the recent Himesh Reshammiya songs that pretend to be totally sensual and grow on you)…and move on to the next best thing…maybe a ‘paathshaala’? Did I betray my superficiality? ;-)
Friday, February 17, 2006 @ 12:17 AM
Happy second birthday, by the way…
Friday, February 17, 2006 @ 12:17 AM
Greetings to you, O confused one. You are in search of answers, it seems. I have them for you, but only if you ask nicely.
Blessings
Friday, March 3, 2006 @ 12:42 AM
Seeing as we anyway stand accused of finding old posts to comment on, we might as well come here and pay homage to our most favourite post of all, no?
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 @ 5:20 PM