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| Jessica Lona |
" Solidarity in Music through
Religion "
When we talk about the world,
we talk about nations. When we talk about nations, we talk about people.
Talking about people, we can see there are wide varieties of traditions and
cultures all over the world. Unfortunately, this world we live in is lacking in
unity. Unity suppose to be the core of
everything especially in the world of music entertainment. Just like a song, some of us are able to
notice which one has unity and which one don’t.
Unity in music isn’t only comes from the tone produced from instruments
itself. It comes from the musicians who are working with the song. Unity or
harmonization comes from the motive of writing the song and the attitude or
character of the musicians in his daily life. That harmonization can be
produced by harmonizing ourselves with our surroundings; our family, our
friends, our listeners, our fans, our fellow musicians and the religion that
they believe. Why did I mention about religion? The reason is one. Respecting
other people and the believe they hold on to, can produce a peaceful
harmonization and solidarity in the world of music entertainment because
everyone deserves and wants to be respected.
Don‘t put yourself in a
particular classes. That is a great start to harmonization or unity. If we pay
attention, many musicians never realize the importance of considering people
outside of their religion. A person who pays attention to their own kind is
considered is kind. But a person who pays attention to everyone including people
outside of their religion isn’t only considered as kind but also thoughtful and
wise. Lastly, someone who neglect other religions is considered as foolish.
Once again we have to remember, unity is the core of music. When a musician
respect only a particular class of people, only some people love their music.
But when a musician respects everybody lots of people love them and their
music. There was a case just recently about an Indonesian musician who insulted
other religion and he shared his statement to the press. Just a day after that
lots of people lose their respect for this guy.
Get the initiative of doing
something good. When we are all able to respect, we have to go to the next
level. When unity starts to shape by attitude, we have to build it even more by
deeds. Not many musicians take heed of this one. Anyone who have the initiative
of doing something good is considered not only as someone kind and wise, but
also generous. Generous isn’t always by giving gifts as in materials. It can be
many things. Anything that is called sharing, can be considered as generous.
Maybe we can start from religious holidays. When we notice that another
religion is celebrating their own holiday, we can get the initiative is giving
them greetings through anything like greeting card, posters, flyers, and
sometimes we can put them in an advertisements. Through this way, we and our
music is uniting itself with the surroundings from what we do.
Always think positive in any
time and anywhere. Regardless of what
the others think you have been doing for other religions, never put the
negatives on our minds. God created us musicians, to share good things, good
messages to everyone no matter what religion they believe and no matter where
they comes from. Always remember that our worries and doubts can always be seen
in our music. We have to be very careful with that. No matter who comes to us
and compliments our music even though they got no religion at all or whatever,
always think positive about them. As long as what they share to us is something
good, we have to accept it with an open heart. Having too much of negative
thoughts is human’s nature. But it is our decision to think positive and it
gets easier when we always practice doing it.
The three point that have
been mentioned is basically talking about what we do for others. But if we read
carefully, those are talking about how to take great care of the music we made
and our legacy as musicians to future generations. We have been creating an
image of what people think of us starting from the first time we start music
career. And that image will lasts very
long and sometimes until forever. We are the one to choose who will be become.
“ Taking great care of others
means taking great care of yourself “ ~ Jessica Lona
By: Jessica Lona
Date: October 26th 2012
For everyone who reads this.
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