Thou Shalt Not Get Carried Away By The Music…

The guy on hat sits like he is sharing the chair. I am sure couldn’t he believe his luck. Or he probably thinks that loser guy must be dumb. Idk… I want to know what you think?

Pretty awkward dancer, but arguably the best entertainer [think of a clown] in the musical chair game.

Luckily, he had scaled through the first to the seventh round of the game, leaving him with just one person. The last seat was his, or at least it seemed so.

Let me take you back a bit.

Now, we all know how musical chairs work right? Perhaps we have done it in our childhood days.

The logic is simple: Have your mind fixed on the chairs; pay more attention to the music as a prompt, not a melody that gets you carried away; don’t distant yourself from any chair and when you have to hijack from someone, don’t hesitate.

As children, there are those who are forced to dance and others who put in their best dance moves. The ones who cry because they did well but lost, and those who cry even though they did not attempt dancing. The one child who wins, and the other child who should have won.

Back to him.

He was immersed in entertaining the crowd with his bad dance moves and got into the songs. He lost the last lap.

You see, no matter how much you’ve scaled through, if it is not the end, then you’d need the same energy, intuition, will and determination to win. And it’s tricky, because that’s when the applause gets to you and slowly, you are dancing to many tunes.

Just like the musical chairs, you can’t afford to be absorbed in the melody of the song that you lose sight of the nearest chair you need to occupy.

This is not an article about musical chairs, it’s about you.

Think of this phase as a game of musical chairs. For every time you find yourself a seat, you proceed to another round.

And it is quite interesting because you won’t dance for long, you’d only dance for as long as the music plays.

Of course, it is your choice to decide: Do I want to dance away and lose sight of what the deal is, or do I want to keep it altogether, and scale through till I’m the last man seated?

The only problem now is, unlike the analogy where the song is beautiful, this phase of yours may be turbulent and sad, and there might be a pitiful crowd, instead of cheering ones.

You may have sorrowful songs that make you stiff, but it’s musical chairs and you can’t stay out of the game. Whether it is beautiful or sad, you need to scale to the end. It doesn’t go on forever, so you should do what has to be done and win.

Here, there’s no award for the best entertainer, or the most sorrowful. Sure, you can fascinate people with the awesomeness of your moves, or dampen their hearts with your sorrow. At the end, the award belongs to only who wins round, and round.

I use to struggle with other kids to play this drum on the assembly.

The holy grail of musical chairs is: Thou shalt not get carried away by the [melody, or solemnity] of the music, nor by the cheers or pity of the crowd, but focus on getting a seat till you’re the last man seated.

I may have taken a longer route to tell you something simple, but here is it: Stay above criticism, or cheers; dance to whatever music that comes your way no matter how hard and keep your drive to win.

Grab the chair!

Inspired by true event.