I often cry these days. No, it's not a depression, it's the events happening globally.

Today, I have seen a short video of an Iranian music teacher who sits in the ruins of his music school, with his instrument, saying, "I don't want the last sound coming from my destroyed music school to be bombs and missiles."

He then starts to play his instrument. Here is his video.
https://imginn.com/p/DW1vS4wiRf7/

#music #Iran

@amalia12 it breaks my heart too. :/
@deepsy
It does not only break my heart. For me, there is more to it. I think it is an incredible brave and rebellious thing to do, to keep doing what you love doing (in this case, playing music) amidst ruins and destruction.
As if he would say, "Fuck these war mongers, I won't let them take my music from me."
There is a Spanish proverb which goes, "Nobody can take away from me what I have danced." So that's art as a form of rebellion, in my eyes.
@amalia12 that's exactly what breaks my heart because as someone that has survived years of trauma myself - by creating art and music - I understand that if creating art equals living, these people have no other options left. It is indeed a rebellious act somehow, but without the noble undertone that social media often adds to it. Continuing art as an artist in war is refusing to die, as rebellious just as continuing to eat and breathe would be.
@deepsy Yes, exactly this.