ORCHESTRA PLAY 🎻

Hello lovely steemains 🙂. Hope all is going well! where I come again with something extraordinary and dimensional to discuss with us...as you read...let the picture flow in your mind.

So one night, was watching an orchestra play on a TV, from the Kennedy center at Lagos, while in Uyo. It was a random play but it ended up giving me a thoughtful glance about life. Dozens of people with violins, trumpets, flutes, drums, and they started playing. At first, it sounded messy, the instruments, the sounds, they were almost clashing or so I thought. Because I focused on one sound, it made me think that a sound coming from a particular instrument was off key, but when I stayed long enough, everything started to blend. Different instruments! different notes!! same song!!!

It made me think about life. About people, how we often expect everyone else to sound like us, to react like us, to understand things the exact way we do, and when they don't...we call it disagreement. That's when I realized something I've always believed and I do like to say it out loud, looking and seeing are not the same thing You look through your eyes but you see through your bias, which is shaped by your experiences, your background, your pain, your priorities. And that is where strife begins, the expectation that other people should see what we see because we are looking at the same thing. We might be watching the same scene from a movie, but we are not watching with the same history.

The real goal is not agreement the real goal is allowance. That is why we say we agree to disagree the real goal is giving space for another person's lens. The same way this orchestra gives space for another instrument's sound. Because, when you look at life as an orchestra you would realize that difference is not noise, rather it is design.

You can't have harmony without contrast, ask those in the choir. And here is what I even found fascinating the most powerful person in that orchestra, played no sound at all. The conductor! He doesn't make music, he makes sense out of music. He listens to every note, balances the rhythm and ensures that one sound doesn't drown out the other and that's what good leadership is. Whether in a home or in an organization or in a team. it wasn't about controlling people...no!!!... it was about creating harmony among differences.

That made me realize that real leadership is not even about being the loudest voice in the room, but just making sure that every voice finds expression in the way that harmonizes the collective vibration. But that's a different conversation entirely, so before you walk away from someone because they don't sound like you, try to listen again, because sometimes that could be harmony forming. Remember, different notes, different instruments, same song.

Maybe, it's might be irreconcilable differences OR maybe those differences have not just been layered yet by a good conductor!!!

Thanks for reading my article... @dheoracle loves you all.🙂