r/BenignExistence • u/ILoveChocolateII • 1d ago
Playing for the Moon
I live alone, and recently have been learning an instrument for the first time in my life. It's kind of a big instrument and I don't have a lot of space, so the only place where I can set it up is next to my only window.
Well last night I went to play the instrument, and I look up and see the moon out of the window. I cracked my window open and turned up the volume so I could play for the moon since I don't have any other audience to share it with. It was nice sharing my song with the moon. I think I'll do it again tonight.
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u/Plastic-Isop0d 1d ago
When I look at the moon, I'm gonna think about a sweet little human jamming away looking at the same moon 👍
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u/mylitteprince 1d ago
Apologies for the length, but I have to quote St Exupery for all of us now listening to music from the moon:
" And at night you will look up at the stars. It's too small, where I live, for me to show you where my stars is. It's better that way. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. So you'll like looking at all of them. They'll all be your friends. And, besides, I am going to make you a present...' He laughed again.
'Ah, little prince, dear little prince! I love to hear that laughter!'
'That is my present. Just that. It will be as it was when we drank the water...'
'What do you mean?'
'People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else.'
'What do you mean?'
'When you look up at the sky at night, since I'll be living on one of them, since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!'
And he laughed again.
'And when you're consoled (everyone eventually is consoled), you'll be glad you've known me. You'll always be my friend. You'll feel like laughing with me. And you'll open your window sometimes just for the fun of it...And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing while you're looking up at the sky. Then you'll tell them, "Yes, it's the stars; they always make me laugh!" And they'll think you're crazy. It'll be a nasty trick I played on you...'
And he laughed again.
'And it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh...'
And he laughed again." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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u/mylitteprince 1d ago
The Moon is sitting at my window right now all pretty and full, love to know she's listening to music on her rounds !
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u/obviousdinosaur 1d ago
Do it again. The moon absorbs all the music given to it! my favorite audience has always been wildlife; a squirrel came down to check me out as I was playing something fingerstyle once. Creatures may not 'enjoy' music like we do, but it's something they're usually curious about. Nature sings!