For purposes of due genuflection of admission to Beethoven, this blogger, aspiring classical musician and composer, must here endeavour to make a personal confession: The problem is not the problem. The problem is that you always only ask for the bare minimum and so that's what you get!
The problem is that you allow other people to define value.
…And once you determine your own value - yet they are astonished! 😧 Family, friends, colleagues—the world at large …This is why celebrities of all sort are so astonishing! Because they set the interpretation of their own value. Something that is completely out of reach of the limited mind. It’s astonishing! Haha
as·ton·ish·ing
/əˈstäniSHiNG/
adjective
adjective: astonishing
extremely surprising or impressive; amazing.
"an astonishing achievement"
as·ton·ish
/əˈstäniSH/
verb
gerund or present participle: astonishing
surprise or impress (someone) greatly.
"you never fail to astonish me"
Origin
early 16th century (as astonished, in the sense ‘stunned, bewildered, dismayed’): from obsolete astone ‘stun, stupefy’, from Old French estoner, based on Latin ex- ‘out’ + tonare *‘to thunder’*
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Is this not Beethoven? To whom I owe the deepest appreciations ~ Who blazed his own trail throughout the world as thunder ⚡️ astonishing everyone in his path in redefining the value of everything?
…And Beethoven *had* to be that way tho the world at large rants on since his very time to the present day complaining about his misanthropy! But he *knew* that he was not in the world to substantiate it or of anything that had come before or that was then in existence - but to redefine the whole of the very fabric of existence itself ~ and this is the very thing that continues to set him apart from every other ~ & he wasted no time, neither spared any one in doing so! "Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you.”
This excerpt quote from the Heiligenstadt was about much more than his malady of increasing deafness. The purpose of Beethoven’s stalwart authenticity was to redefine everything.
You can’t change the world by being like it …Or by being liked by it.
It seriously bothered me to find myself at a point of not understanding Beethoven, even to the measure of deep disappointment and anger with him —-to the point of disgust! But I understand him now ~ & value him even moreso.
