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Oct 2013
People are music ♫
The differences in people can be thought of like various aspects of music.
Some people are a rhythm, a chord, a key, repeating over an over again, varying little (if at all) from their original forms.

Yet others are more complex.
Some can be a melody, sixteen bars, or perhaps longer.
A melody that flows above the gentle chords of their fellow humans.
A melody that changes and adapts as their tempo speeds and lingers, the key to their song changes its color, or perhaps change just simply because the melody is meant to change, be it by choice or by chance, or the hand of fate that wrote her beauty into life.

Yet still.... There can be others.
A higher level beyond just a rhythm, or just a melody that changes when it's needed.
Perhaps the highest level of human existence comes from the human containing all of these components.... And creating a song.

A musical piece that cannot be defined or understood by merely what it is composed of. More than a key, a tempo, a melody.... A complete person is greater than the sum of these musical attributes.
A person who is a song, who holds meaning in their song--whose song sings of their own experience.... Merely for others to listen (if they provide the time to do so).

Pure music is never the same when played twice, because the music is contingent upon the situation with which a person currently finds the self.
Their emotion
Their experiences
Their friends
Other music, and "music" that has inspired them and their song....

Mollie Price-Blackshear
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Mollie Price-Blackshear  Conway, AR
(Conway, AR)   
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