Cello: A New-found Love

One time during my break at work, I was researching about the cello for a reason I could barely recall. Perhaps, it was for...something. Right, I could barely recall.

I found this music video of Steven Sharp Nelson's cello concierto (an orchestral cover) on one of One Republic's hit pieces, Secrets. Then I just fell for the music, period. There started my addiction to the bass sound of the musical instrument. I suddenly missed music and those days when I was deadly in love with it; those days I now want to relive.

Then I switched to daydreaming - me in a white silk gown, playing the cello under the midnight moon. Isn't that...overly dramatic? Ugh. Or did I just describe Keri Russell in August Rush? More like that.

But that must be beautiful! Surely as beautiful as the music videos' introductory quote from Beethoven himself:

"Don't only practice art, but force your way to its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine."

And as dazed as I was, and for the love of the cello, I say:

"Loving is much like playing the cello. Only when you play it by heart that you get to hear the music it can make."

The Synonyms of Exploration (Sex and other drugs)

One cooling puff from a slim elegant stick of vogue, and then the story begins.

Bring out the beer! That miracle. It wasn’t coincidence that a piece of bread was left out in the rain, and then there was malt. And today, countries savor the pleasure of ice-cold bubble-topped beer, of how many brands, that I don’t know. The Germans loved it one gulp ahead of the rest of the world.

Talk about life, growth, change and the way to it – exploration.

The American Heritage Dictionary® of the English Language, via The Free Online Dictionary defines exploration as “the act or an instance of exploring”. That makes sense; that one called common sense. That’s one thing I hate about dictionaries.

Adventure, analysis, domiciliary visit, dragnet, emprise, enquiry, examination, expedition, forage, frisk, house-search, hunt, hunting, inquiry, inspection, investigation, mission, observation, perquisition, pilgrimage, posse, probe, quest, ransacking, recce, recon, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitering, research, review, rummage, scouting, scrutiny, search-and-destroy operation, search, search party, search warrant, searching, stalk, stalking, still hunt, study, survey, turning over.

Did you read all them? I didn’t. I think I just counted. Forty-five synonyms of exploration from freethesaurus.net. And just by looking at them, I can say a lot, but not more than half, are new to me. But that couldn’t make anyone less of a blogger, right?

It amazes me that forty-five words couldn’t explain ‘the word’ in its deepest "social" sense. Or perhaps it’s how subjective each and every word could be.

Trial. This is the word I want to add to the synonyms of exploration. Try, the root word. And it was for this word that I began to notice the inaudible meaning of exploration. As a kid who grew so fond of Astronomy, exploration only meant ‘space exploration’ to me. Until I lost count of the times I’ve heard the line, Try mo lang. And not so long later, I heard it from myself. Then I realized that the meaning was vulgar, only that I had to experience it myself, not only hearing from NASA’s updates; only that I had to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right people; only that I had to decide to give it a “Try”.

Because ignorance is a crime, and so is innocence, in a way or two. If you haven’t experienced, if you haven’t tried, if you haven’t explored, ignorance is synonymous to innocence. But when the right time has come and you don’t decide to try, you are ignorant more than innocent.

But curiosity is danger lurking behind the grandeur of making wisdom; behind the excitement of gaining experience. Curiosity is seductive, beautiful and lustful in a way anyone could barely refuse. And you just caught the word ‘lustful’. Definitely, curiosity ain’t just about sex. It could be sex and other drugs. But of course, there’s even more, like space exploration: if in case you got curious about how long can Earth stand still. That’s curiosity. And then you can watch 2012 again, and think.

Space exploration, that’s one; and the other forty-five synonyms of exploration are all formal, serious,…and boring.

What if exploration means one stick, one puff; one gulp, one glass down; one touch, one kiss, one night of carefree fun, one day of regret; one change either for good or for a day, would you give it a “Try”?

Why not? Or why not think about it?