new year’s eve

Hello blog, I feel like I’ve been neglecting you these past few months. In this brand new year of 2012, I hope to be able to blog more often, to pour more of my heartfelt sentiments onto this virtual medium and hopefully gain some comfort from doing so.

Blogging, in my opinion, is kinda like writing, and it really offers solace when you do it frequently. In a strange inexplicable way it sort of releases a part of your soul… I might not be making sense but then I don’t think its supposed to.

I bade farewell to 2011 with beautiful melodies floating around in my head and an awesome sight of exploding lights. As the dark sky lit up with shower after shower of shimmering brilliance, I realised there was no other way I would wanna welcome the new year. The Wicked musical was worth every bit the money I paid, and up till now Defying Gravity’s echoing around in my head. Admittedly the rendition by last night’s cast was a little different from what I had expected and a tiny bit disappointing, I’m still glad I caught it :) The arts are, indeed, a “higher form of pleasure”, and this I quote from the lecture from a Harvard professor, and they do serve to ease the weary soul.

This particularly heart-wrenching depiction of love and friendship merely served to illustrate that drama ultimately stemmed from reality, and subconsciously i guess we find ourselves empathising with the fiction that was so close to heart. Perhaps that, then, is the reason why we continually feel so attracted to the arts that speak of our deepest concerns, even those we never knew or cared to admit were there.