I felt so bad lately, seemed to live in a vicious circle of misery. So I went to listen to some classical music. Beethoven's ninth enlivens my heart, Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto shakes my spirit and Wagner's Tannhauser overture widens my mind... why so? How could Beethoven compose such powerful Symphony while being miserably deaf or Rachmaninov after his epic failure or Wagner while being dismissed and under-appreciated? I recalled being quite miserable before reading Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and somehow it gives me hope and so many other writers incite me to be the hero of my life. How so? How come the creator, imprisoned in a black hole of pain, suffering and despair could produce a piece which radiates with such intensity that they give us hope?
I have to confess myself that my "best" writing is usually while living the most painful and miserable experience, the words, the sentences, the ideas are flowing whereas in my normal self, my writing is quite slow and I'm probably fluffing it with unnecessary things. Do we need a certain level of misery to perform, compose, write... to create in general?
I have to confess myself that my "best" writing is usually while living the most painful and miserable experience, the words, the sentences, the ideas are flowing whereas in my normal self, my writing is quite slow and I'm probably fluffing it with unnecessary things. Do we need a certain level of misery to perform, compose, write... to create in general?
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