Listening to Sibelius and others I realized how just maybe, if the world didn't have sorrow and pain, there might be no music in minor key. Just maybe all music would be in major... and if there was no minor, major wouldn't have much meaning either.
Went on from there to think about our existence before being born here - Mormons believe that all humans lived as spirits with God before coming on earth. I thought, since there really was hardly any opposition there - hardly any sorrow or pain (yes yes, I say hardly because we also believe that some rebelled against God and that should have caused some sorrow and pain) - maybe all the music was in major. And how beauty is actually only understood if opposition to it exists. So, I thought, we must have been excited to experience these things. Even if we didn't really know what it means. Discussion must have gone something like this:
God: I could send you to earth, where you can have aesthetic experiences of different sorts!
We: Yay! (Wait, what's aesthetic experiences? But wants it!)
Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights.
Ihania ajatuksia. Ehkä me joskus tulevassa vielä muistetaan miltä tuntui ennen tätä maanpäällistä elämää. Olis ainakin musta sit mielenkiintoista vertailla tuntemuksia sen ja nykyisen ja tulevan välillä.
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