ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING ???????

This is my second blog and the topic I am covering in this blog is not very unique and different yet so important and untouched which can really drive all of us to think that are we missing something in our life due our busy life schedule and due so many lined up at commitments to fulfill. If we sit and think on the same I am sure that it will left all of us with a same question that how many small but so important things we missed just because we are so busy in the race of life. Really we always miss small- small happiest moments in our life just because we all are running for huge pleasures to come in future but for that happy future we missed lot of things in our present and once we miss something in our present it never comes back again.

So let me tell you how this thought came to my mind I was reading a very interesting article before some day and it really shaked my inner soal completely and I actually started thinking that what things I already missed till now? And I want all of you to read that article as well.

“A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist.

Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the top musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.
This is a real story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people.

The outlines were: in a common place environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty?
Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?”

Isn’t it interesting one? Really it’s very funny to think on the same but it holds the reality a hard core reality of life. It was just a slight example but if we think deeply on this it can left us with a big question mark that what we missed and what all we can miss in future too. All of us must have got many such opportunities which we should not miss but we did and you know what the real pain is? The pain is that we have not even realized that what we actually fail to notice.