The Joy of Uncertainty (it's all about jamming)

Uncertainty is nerve-wracking and exciting. It is the feeling you get when you're about to make a jump from a height. The possibilities are limited but the experience is highly rewarding. The scientists attribute the feeling to the release of a hormone. Thank you God for making such chemicals!

It's been about a month since I started jamming with a local musician in Bangalore. It started as an exercise to experiment. We started out sharing music and then decided to experiment with original compositions. We even came up with three original compositions; still a long way to go but excited.

I had never jammed before, so I wasn't sure what would be the outcome. Therein lays the problem of all problems. I've got so used to achieving something that I've lost the ability to enjoy the process. I read about journey is more rewarding...blah blah...however I'm more worried about the destination.

I went into jamming with the same mindset; to get a result...a song or a melody (just about anything that can count as a success). Then I slowly decided to let go of this urgency to reach somewhere and decided to begin enjoying REACHING THERE! This tipped everything in the favour of creativity. And the joyous journey began.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

Charlie Sheen

FYI, checkout my band-mate's solo compositions here. The name of the band is "Daira". We jam on weekends and you can say the genre is alternative/fusion/everything-possible!

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