Dr Amit Nagpal is a consultant and coach whose primary interest lies in providing Personal Branding Consultancy specially in digital space. He is also known as a passionate Blogger, Motivational speaker and Trainer (in Life skills and Digital Marketing). He is a Leadership Mentor for IAYSCP (International Association of Young Supply Chain Professionals), USA and is also a member of the Global Mentoring Committee for Entrepreneurship Incubation, 3E Innovative Foundation, Delhi NCR, India. His blog, “The Joys of Teaching” (A Blog on Life Mantras for Sustainable Success) is read in 100 plus countries and the numbers continue to rise as the words spread day by day.
Music makes us great. Sounds funny! If music makes us great, then all of us are already great. Most of us like some form of music; instrumental or vocal, playing or listening to a instrument, singing or dancing to the tunes of music, don’t we all have some association with music?
Firstly we all are great, but we need to bring out that greatness. We all have some skill, something special about us in which we all are world class. It is our own inner beliefs which limit us, it is our own foolishness that we do not have even time to think and discover our life purpose. Now you must be thinking, “What Amit, you sound contradictory? Are we foolish and great at the same time?” Yes ladies and gentlemen, we are. We are a bundle of contradictions; we have a wise subconscious mind covered with foolish conscious mind. We are great yet we refuse to accept and recognize our very greatness. In fact, Michael Thallium has brought a slight shift in my thinking. Earlier I used to believe we can become great, now I believe we are already great, we only need to uncover it.
What better way to uncover our hidden greatness than through music and the arts. If God is the Creator, all creative people must be godly. Can we create something better than music which is beyond language, something which stirs our very souls? I may have a personal bias towards music and cartooning because they are beyond language and connect us human beings so well. If it were not so, why did the song ‘Kolaveri Di’ get world famous in such a short span? This Tamil language song from Tamil Nadu state of India, whose lyrics are fully understood only in one state, partially understood in Southern India and hardly understood in Northern India has got 17 million Youtube hits and is making the world tap its feet. Music is truly something global and great and so are the people who create it.
Music can heal, it can inspire, it can make you laugh and cry, it can give companionship, and to me music is God, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. Music is present in the sweet laughter of the babies, it knows and represents all our emotions, it is all powerful and can make the most heartless person shed tears. Music can move mountains or in other words bring people who have become mental, physical and emotional rocks, out of their hard shells.
I can’t write more, music is ringing too hard in my ears. Here is my all time favorite Hindi song, “Yeh Dooriyaan”
(The rough translation of the song’s chorus, “These distances, the distances of the roads, the distances between the life partners, the distances between the eyes, may these distances come to an end!” So you are already missing your loved one, please don’t cry, I can feel your vibes.)
Dr Amit Nagpal
The Joys of Teaching
