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Somehow I can't fathom why the
quotient of being or doing "the Cool" is always associated to
something so illogical and brainless. For E.g. Uber coolness of drinking soft
drinks like Pepsi, etc. Why? Just because their advertisement features hunky-dory
star flaunting absurd reasons for us to spend ten times more money in compare
to actually making these cola drinks on the first place. This bacterial
consumerism in my views is the exact opposite of what I would call is "the
liberated dope!" We all know by drinking cola is just going to make our
bones weak and decrease our immunity to fight diseases, there might be
possibility that you may, end up in an ad commercial, but it won't be next to
Shahrukh khan or Beckham singing the Cola song! It would be of 'WHO' (World
Health Organization) on How did I get Osteoporosis? Now how many people know
about Usman Riaz, At least I did not until today, he's one of the brilliant
young talents in the world of music and creativity. I like the part that when
he talks he protrudes genuineness and courteousness with absolute zero percent
of egotistical traits in his personality in spite of achieving enormous amount
of success in an early age.
Music, arts, dancing and creativity are the tools to stay in touch
with humanitarian side of ourselves. A human experience is one of the unique
experiences, which dwells from act of kindness; it's there in watching a street
art or a flash mob performance, it's the feeling of being a part of something
bigger than money, you or any superficial fantasy ingested by illusions of
today's society. Watching this young man perform on the stage was inspiring in
so many ways, but specifically I would like to highlight two important things that you can learn from this young
prodigy of guitar is to firstly, never stop learning and experimenting! Raised
in a family of stalwarts in classical music and art from Pakistan he never
limited himself to what was given to him hereditary, but by breaking the norms
and learning the art of finger-style in guitar or learning harmonica. Secondly,
to never stop pursuing your passion no matter what! The hunger to learn new
things always excited him, even if that meant no professional help and
countless hours of practicing by just watching YouTube videos of his favourite
Guitarist. The outcome of his relentless passion landed him on the same stage
with his idol Preston Reed, A dynamite finger-style guitarist in one of the TED
Shows.
I loved the way in this video above; he finished off with a quote
right before he plays the last piece on guitar by saying, "we have so much
Information and knowledge available to us at our fingertips, just imagine what
we could do if we decided to use it" it struck me like a lightning and I
could not help, but to contemplate of how many things I left behind saying to
the mirror that I was not equipped with the knowledge to do it." In the
world were almost everything is assumed obsolete or limited, these forms of art
will always be in abundance, whether its art of creative writing, dance or
music. They are and will always inspire us in all forms and spheres of life
whether you are a banker, an athlete or an artist, so let's appreciate these
apparatus of human experience which will always keep us high on the
philanthropic quotient and that's why I say! Now that's "da liberated
dope!"
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