Ladies of Hive Community Contest #4 • my entry #2 for Ladies of Hive

As you may have guessed from the picture, I'm answering the question #2: "What musical instrument would you say best describes your personality and why?"

The guitar has reflected my personality since I was little. I got memories from my childhood when I would airband the guitar while listening to some crazy solos of rock bands from the '60s and '70s I used to enjoy with my parents' vinyl records. But lemme tell you more about this passion of mine.

I consider the guitar to be a very multifaceted instrument, good to play such a wide range of music, from all sorts of pop and rock, to classic and experimental even. Having said that, it was unavoidable for me to fall in love with this instrument when I first started to listen to music and became, throughout the years, an authentic music passionate and lover.

Indeed, I should also mention that I myself have a multifaceted personality. Also, being a gemini doesn't really help in terms of firmness of mood and character! 😅 Besides being often very moody, changing ideas, points of view, perspective on things and life situations is precisely what I think identify the most with guitar as instrument: a never-ending source of discoveries, concepts, and newness.

For my experience as a photographer combined with my love for music, I've always been exposed to musicians and bands, as I often underlined in my previous posts; exposure to new music bands also gave me the chance to understand more about music itself and thanks to some friends of mine who are musicians, and mostly guitarists, I even started to actually study and play the guitar. As I was moving my first steps into music theory, at the same time I couldn't but begin strumming my guitar, and the more I got confident with its shape, strings, and sound, the more I realized how real and true my thought was, that the guitar and my personality had indeed so much in common.

...I only wish I had more time to practice and enjoy playing my beloved guitar!

Moving on to question #3 "One day you wake up and learn that you are being relocated (for whatever reason) to another part of the world. You are allowed to take one thing with you and you must choose from this list of three things: A seed canister of vegetable seeds; a shovel, or a solar panel and controller kit. What is your choice and why?"...this one required much more thinking 😁

The answer is short and clear: the canister of vegetable seeds. Before stating the easier explanation, I'd like to start with a sort of prologue. Recently I came across an extremely interesting documentary on nutrition, specifically on nutrition related to sport recovery, athletic performances, and sport life. But not only. The film is called The Gamechangers and challenges the whole human history of preconceptions and false myths about animal-based nutrition and animal protein intake, mostly when it comes to sport nutrition and gaining strenght, endurance, and power. The question #3 of the contest and its options made me immediately think of the documentary, because it clearly points out the fundamental and basic importance vegetables, and plants in general, have in our life, not just as humans, but as earthlings. In other words (and here's the easy explanation for my answer), nothing is more important than vegetables, and therefore among seeds, shovel, solar panels and controller kits, seeds are the only reasonable object to take into consideration.

However, the question doesn't mention at all why or where I'm relocated. Am I going to a lost island? Or am I just moving to another city? ...well no, never mind | The more I think about it, I'd never choose anything else than some seeds 🙃

For my Italian fellows, remember the "per fare un tavolo" song? Well, "per fare tutto ci vuole un fiore" but before the flower, of course the seed is king!