Shouldn't…but Do

Try this at home – hum or sing a tune – no words, just a tune.

While moving into the song,  change it.  Just decide  here or there  that it might go up, down, slower, faster.

Uncomfortable at first, not familiar, no pattern to speak of as it rambles a bit.  But then it repeats –  now you have a little structure.  Add another change.   You might end it there for now, or keep going.

Change it up, do it different  – or better yet, hum your own song, one played before only in your head.   Melodies pass my way on occasion,  I  appreciate their flavor and let ’em go.  Here and gone – some return, some do not.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell said [i]f you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path.  Maybe that works for songs too.