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We’re Living in a Non-Linear World
And I’m a Non-Linear Girl
We operate and function based on artificial premises that we do not even understand to be artificial. And that’s why most people perceive time and events in a linear fashion. It’s easier for most people’s brains to understand things including their own lives in the form of a linear narrative.
This is utterly ridiculous.
If you are reading this you have been born. And you at some point will die. Your death may be a result of a poor decision or someone else’s poor decision or you may just die. There need not be reason or consequences but it will happen. So you have basically two points which anchor you in this world, those being your birth and your death. These are immutable. These happened. And you probably understand them as sort of Alpha and Omega events. But I really don’t think they are.
When I sing the worst section is inevitably the beginning. I do rather well in the middle of the piece and I rarely screw up the ending, but that opening phrase is always bad. For something like “Think of Me” (which by the by, was one of the first works I ever learned) that’s totally fine because the character is supposed to kinda suck out of the gate. But for pieces like Casta Diva, Oh Mio Babbino Caro, and Un Bel Di, it is DEFINITELY NOT FINE. I’m not sure why it is that I do…
