The Reasons of Art

Practice. Practice your art till you feel like dropping. Don't stop. Keep going. Enjoy it. Do it like you were born to! Take that extra effort and push through it. Hone your skills till you could perform in front of the whole city. Set goals. Achieve those goals. Motivate yourself. Keep trying. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outlier says that it takes 10,000 hours of pure concentrated practice to achieve mastery in that field. Do you want to achieve mastery in your art? Then work for it. Get your rhythm and get comfortable. Go out and perform because it can only do you good. Make every moment feel magical like you were in Hogwarts. Flow through it like it was water. Lose yourself in it and lose all sense of time. Go back in time and relive your favorite memories. Have a blast and enjoy every moment.

Art is not just music or drawing, it’s a language that cuts across all barriers. It brings out the personal strengths in you and helps you focus. It takes you to places, it makes you fantasize. It lasts long, something that will be there forever. Art says what words couldn’t possibly express. It gives you power over yourself. Moreover, it’s good to make things now and again. You don’t need a reason to, you need a reason not to make it.

At a Grade 8 assembly, the Mashed Potatoes got ready for performing in front of an very eager and restless bunch of students. As the band members filed into position, the crowd went dead silent. The drummer started the countdown, the guitarist started strumming, the pianist started playing soft chords and the singers got ready. As the instruments melded together, the singers began. Nobody talked for the 3 minutes that they performed. Every eye was on the band. Either the intricate finger movements of the guitarists or the nodding of the drummers head or even the pianist swinging his head from side to side.

As the song receded, the audience erupted into applause. Manini Banerjee, the guitarist of Mashed Potatoes said” I really enjoyed playing her guitar because she could share music and her thoughts. I really like playing my guitar because it gives me a sense of relief. Arjun Achar of 8JRa said “All the instruments were in ensemble and everything seemed perfect for the 3 minutes. The sound of all the instruments together made me forget my worries. The performance was great and I wish that I had the guts to perform and loose myself like that.”

Written by Kunal