Revelation

When you want something that badly, how the world conspires to to give you that. Well the saying is something on those lines. Not always true though, but keeping the negatives aside. Its been little over couple of months since I started pursuing classical music instrumentals types, and what a revelation it has been. I didn't have a clue when I started and now a pretty good collection and soaking it in.Internet and google are great levellers!

Initially it was just western classical and it was by sheer luck I stumbled upon "Temples of India", I was searching for a Discovery Channel torrent by the same name, this was a compilation of soothing, peaceful Indian classical music, all instrumentals. SInce then it has been a deluge, I am basking in all its glory. Pandit Hariprasads Chaurasia or Anushka Shankar's sitar or Ravi Shankar, they now rank alongside Curt Cobian, Led Zepplin, Bob Dylan ......

"After wandering all around you will come home one day", thats what my mother used to say when as a kid I used to look down upon home made food.I used to hate home made food, ever curious for the tastes outside, she is a good cook but I would be the last one to compliment her.I sometimes used to piss her off knowingly, ever complaining though I would be enjoying it totally. It couldnt be truer, after feeding on Rock/Pop/Blues and all that goes along with it, I am now fully immersed in Indian Classical Music. Many things in life I guess are right there, right beside you, you just need to look down and notice it.

First question that came after listening to their music was How did I miss them ? Why didnt look at them before ? "There is a proper time for everything, you got to be patient" I used to argue with her abut the virtues of patience, now she has probably given up , she doesnt preach patience anymore. When these days I call her and tell how I sometimes long for home made food and recently how I am amazed with the Indian classical music, I can imagine a smile on her face, "what did I tell you ?". She doesnt rub it in though.

But I still dont agree with this notion of patience, I understand that with time you become probably more mature to appreciate many things, but why cant we strive towards achieving, what we know is correct, right away, why she didnt help me in making me understand. I was never beyond resoning, she could have made me sit and talked to me rather than just a line, left hanging on the air.What will I do with that line ?

When I started playing Age of Empires, I once called her and said, I play this game on my computer, (she doesn't understand computers at all) and it takes about 5-6 hrs to complete this game, I was trying to drive home the point that I can be patient if required, not just for the sake of it, standing in the dark waiting for the light to shine, I dont have that notion of 'patience', if you can call that patience in the first place, I consider it more as inaction. Any ways she didn't get my reasoning, she was more concerned if my eyesight will deteriorate watching that screen so long.She didnt argue with me.

Anyways where did I land up! Anoushka Shankar's Anoushka album rocks!