Relaxation

An unusual afternoon of relaxation and reading today. I'm listening to Bach's concerto for two violins in D minor. The music of violin is especially fitting with the calm afternoon sunlight streaming in through the windows... It sounds as if the light and the instrument were made for each other, sharing some fundamental secret amongst themselves that mortal men are not privy to.

This kind of experience always arouses an intense wave of curiosity over my mind. Just what makes a molecular system react in such a way to certain vibrations of air? Is it complexity? Is it some innate characteristic of my components? Or is it purely dependent on the way the materials are arranged? Is it replicable? If this is a natural phenomenon, who's to say that another phenomenon of similar nature might be manifesting somewhere else in this universe, on entirely different materials and scales, like that of a whole galaxy?

My favorite cup of green tea ice cream is melting away. I should go and enjoy my life more.