Getting intoxicated through Art

So, you thought you could only get intoxicated by alcohol.

Well not quite. This is what a piece of art does to you.

Good music, good lyrics, a good book, a good movie, good pictures. See what they can do you. They can transport you, just like booze does. (By using the ubiquitous adjective of ‘good’ so profusely and generously before the art-forms, I expect the adjective ‘good’ to signify ‘though provoking and noticeable stuff’)

A ‘good’ song with touching lyrics and soulful music to go with it, could give you a high in an instant. It can make you softer and mellow, or more enthusiastic and cheerful, depending upon the mood of the song.

Art gives you food for thought. It forces you to think, and that is the charm and beauty of it. An art piece makes you look in a direction. A direction deliberately induced by the artist in his art form. A direction hitherto unexplored. Thus an artist has the potential of manipulating your thoughts and ideas through his art. To say that art can change a person would not be an overstatement, for thoughts are what make a person. Going by Descartes’ ‘cogito ergo sum’ or ‘I Think Therefore I exist’, your thoughts define you existence.

The fictional characters and plots seem far more appealing than the real ones. There seems much more flesh and blood to those. To think, wouldn’t you love to meet Scarlet O Hara or Rhett Butler from ‘Gone with the wind’?

While on the other hand if these characters did exist in real world you would not have found them that appealing. How could you? You would have hardly known them enough to find them interesting. You could not have read these people like a book. Could you??

How often do you actually come across a person whom you actually ‘know’? More so, in these times. The times of cut throat competition when the pace of life and living is faster than it ever was. The times, when you meet people by scores everyday, and have many acquaintances but no friends.

That is what a good book does to you. You can’t help if you fall in love with the characters. You know them. Don’t you? Infact, you know them quite as much as the author does.

Authors, strange breeds they are. Well, not strange but Godly. Don’t damn me for their apotheosis. Now, look at it this way, we have our destiny shaped by a supreme power. Isn’t it so? We don’t know what is coming in the next second. We can’t choose our parents, our birth or sex. Then there are Accidents!! If that is what you choose to call grossly unexpected outcomes. An accident is an outcome that deviates from your worldly calculations and approximations about the fate of an event. Whatever, But there somebody whose calculations never go wrong, who can shape your life just the way he wants to. He creates you, decides for you and shapes your life.

Now look at authors. Don’t they have a similar job?

An author creates people (characters) and their circumstances. He decides for their course of life. He decides for the outcome of their story.

Strange breed authors are, well not strange but Godly.