just so you know

there are no dreams and no fantasies; just the stark reality and the unbridled cruelty of an evolutionarily selfish, survival-of the-fittest kind of loveless world. yes, we might as well teach this to our children from an early age, before they learn it thru the hard way :D

the classics

Had the most inspiring and uplifting experience listening to Beethoven's symphony no. 4 in B flat major, live in concert by the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. At the interval an acute sense of the self engulfed as I sat alone watching the crowd break into their private groups in animated expressions. But post interval, the rendition of Mahler's Symphony no. 1 in D major, in the midst of streaming twilight through the tall glasses of the beautiful church , dissipated any shred of lonesome. In isolation to be moved, thus.