12/1-2020
In life, there is only two types of people. Innovators and imitators. This applies to every field of life. Whether it is business (entrepreneurship/startups), sports, fashion, art, music, etc. Thus there is people who opens up new worlds for you to fall into and discover (innovators), and then people who operates in already existing worlds (imitators).
The music of Dhafer Youssef for instance, is a pure example of (in this case) musical innovation - an assembly of classical Western jazz, infused with Mizrahi (oriental) music, along with vocals inspired by Rumi-mysticism. Together it forms something totally new. Something different.
This is the essence of human evolution. And if anything, I believe that should be the driving force in all our lives, whatever we decide to do, to add something unique to the catalogue of human existence. To find ourselves truly, to express whatever we find, in whatever form that tugs at our hearts. To free ourselves from the shackles of the monolithic society. To immerse in adventure. To be, in a world where people has chosen, not to be. Only the dead fish follows the stream, so whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
If imitation is not the death of the soul, what is it?
