Getting back to the roots: an Opera entry
We’ve gotten away from the roots, haven’t we: The true thoughts behind the writers, the soul behind the artist, the emotions behind the dancers. It all feels like a performance now, instead of a witnessed experience.
Nowadays things feel more rushed — needing to know all the answers, or the most important ones, so young and unexperienced. Yet lately, whilst having more of a slowed rhythm of life, I found myself wanting to get back to the basic of things. For writing, for music, for artistry. I never really though about it before yet I decided I wanted to try out opera. Why? well, I stand firmly on a certain quote:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”
— Albert Einstein
You’ve probably heard the saying of “reinventing the wheel”. Well, I find it exhausting.
Being creative, yes. But having everything you do be the new next big thing? no thank you. I don’t think you’d have much of a life really. It isn’t sustainable.
Sometimes, you just need to go back to the root of it all. Learn from the greats, going back to the books, circling back to step one and going from there.
I mentioned opera earlier. As a singer, you need to take care and know about your vocal chords to be at your best. And yes, I might be influenced by an Angelina Jolie interview where she mentioned how freeing opera was for her in the 2024 movie “Maria”, where she sung an operatic song.
Trying new things, will get you different results. And can I say that I have spent so many days thinking about where I would like to be, still there is a possibility you won’t know completely, which is okay and NORMAL.
New city, new sound, new life, new you, right?
Going back to the roots, might just be going back to your old journals, even the entries from this past year. The reason for going back to roots, is feeling lost. Since, coming back from Japan, I can say that things seem… uneventful. Some might say, “of course it’s vacation and trips, that’s how it’s supposed to be”, yet I don’t feel like coming back from wherever in the world and feeling “mundane” or borderline depressed. Therefore, I want to change my methods, see new strategies. And new strategies can start with knowing why you are doing this [the root of you, or part of it]. And, feeling lost isn’t necessarily, a negative thing, but a time for you to pause and reframe.
A pause and a reframe, might just be what you need.