When I was a kid and people would ask me "What do you want to be when you grow up?", my typical answers were, "A renaissance woman" or "A Jack-of-All-Trades" (We didn't have Jills-of-all-Trades back then!). old, I am sometimes faced with the fact that I'm not a "professional". It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.Īt 59 yrs. Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead.īut we missed the point the whole way along. Because we simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line.īecause we thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at that end, and the thing was to get to that thing at that end. And they go and rot in some, old peoples, senior citizens community. And then when they’re 65 they don’t have any energy left. Look at the people who live to retire to put those savings away. I’m there.” And you don’t feel very different from what you’ve always felt. Then you wake up one day about 40 years old and you say, “My God, I’ve arrived. And all the time that thing is coming – It’s coming, it’s coming, that great thing. And they’ve got that quota to make, and you’re gonna make that. Then you get into some racket where you’re selling insurance. It’s revving up, the thing is coming, then you’re going to go to college… Then you’ve got graduate school, and when you’re through with graduate school you go out to join the world. And then you get out of grade school and you got high school. Then, “Come on” first grade leads to second grade and so on. It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, “Come on kitty, kitty.” And you go to kindergarten and that’s a great thing because when you finish that you get into first grade. We have a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression. The whole point of the dancing is the dance.īut we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our conduct. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord… because that’s the end! And there would be composers who only wrote finales. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition. When you travel, you are trying to get somewhere. We say, “You play the piano.” You don’t work the piano. That is to say, it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at.īut it is best understood by analogy with music, because music, as an art form is essentially playful. The existence, the physical universe is basically playful.
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