Dear Peter,
I want you to know that I heard your music today. I don’t care if you know or not, actually, but I want you to know that I did.
I listened to the whole thing, from beginning to end, as I went for a run, actually. And there is such incredible, relentless joy in it! Maybe I’m imagining things, maybe it was just the mood I was in. But I heard your music today and was transformed. I turned a corner, and the sun had already set, but that final breath of daylight was strong, so strong it turned the greys into golds, the blues into pinks, into reds and into greens. And all of it, to the sound of your music. All of it, to the sound of my footsteps. The sky went through its usual, lazy changes, and I heard you, and I was transformed.
You know, I’ve been running just to keep focussed, really. It’s something that keeps me centered, something I can count on - there aren’t many things as solid as tarmac. It’s something I’m usually pretty absorbed in. But I heard your music today… and I don’t know what came over me. I saw the nameless birds fly across the water, I saw the trees turn black against the night, I saw the silhouettes kissing on the bridge… all of it! All of it! All of it to the sound of your music. And what it was… so vibrant, so full of life… so full of nothing but pure, random chance! And so, so beautiful. I felt lost in a world I had almost missed. As I say - it was hard to think about running, at the time.
You know, Peter, I was always taught to look at the positive. I was never told to do this, not explicitly. I just remember the days when my mum… well, she wasn’t alright, you know… and she used to sing along with us, to a scratched Beach Boys: Greatest Hits CD on the way home. “Oh, my,” she’d exclaim, “look at that tree!”, and we’d all cast a quick glance and shut up for a second and just drive past, whilst Carl & Al strummed their little guitars in the background. Memories like this make me chuckle - they really make me think, what more could I want?, you know? But I heard your music today. And I remembered: I know exactly what it is that I want. It’s strange, how quickly I find myself forgetting… but really, I remembered. I know exactly what it is that I want… I want to see without using my eyes, look at what there is in this world… and join myself with the rhythm.
If you read this letter, please don’t tell anybody. That’s a silly request; you won’t read this letter, I know you’ve been gone a long time… But please don’t tell anybody. I heard your music today, and part of me, just a little part of me, wants to keep it a secret, to stash it away… like photos in a cupboard. I won’t do that, as long as you promise not to tell anybody. That’s very important. Because, Peter, there is so much already happening here… there is so much already going on… so much movement - so much energy, so much happiness. And I suppose I realised, as I wavered my way through the miles, that that is the thing. That is the thing about happiness. It is beautiful, so beautiful that it doesn’t matter, really, whether or not it belongs to me. It will keep on going; there is a lot going on. So please don’t tell anybody, if you read this, Peter, don’t tell. There is no reason to.
There is no need to thank you, either; I know you have been gone a long time. I just want you to know… that I heard your music today. I don’t care if you know or not, actually… but I want you to know that I did.
Yours, for as long as you need me,
Hugo
read the original story (BBC News):
The Big Idea: Could We Use Music Like Medicine? (The Guardian)
The views expressed in this publication do not reflect the views of the author. The stories themselves are based on imagined events. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is fictitious and should not be taken as representative.
Music was my first love, and it will be my last.
I do not take any thing written by the BBC/GUARDIAN with any trust. Both have been funded by SATAN GATES! One wonders if the music they talk about could cure the hundreds of thousands maimed and murdered by the poison jabs they promoted etc.. I wrote the following in late 2020/early 2021 and all coming to fruition!-----https://youtu.be/9tJyO90iGko?si=wHaawHtr4NxzVLW9