Idiosyncracy precedes ingenuity and skill.

A musician of exquisite music beyond compare-- the virtuoso, Nicolo Paganini lived a not so usual life during his time.

At the age of six, he was educated by his father in line with music. On it went with other musicians who tutored the virtuoso until he made public performances and made known his personal compositions. Through his skill and the pulchritude of his compositions, he was able to sway the audience into fancy thus making him quite famous among men.

His medium is the violin. This is a 4-string instrument no longer than a human arm that produces sound quality that would equate to a person singing. By doing tricks such as: the abrupt changing of notes from low to high of even playing with one snapped string made the audience awe in such skill. Paganini knew his element quite to have done such with a limited instrument.

His greatness spread all throughout Europe and thus having him perform in a place did the people much honor. Though all that changed when Paganini began showing crudeness of behaviour. Having taken for granted his innate skill for music, he had been quite a bastard for some time. It even reached to a point where critics disapproved of him through a composition that he made. There had been talks that this virtuoso had been possessed by the devil as the music in question was full of tissonants and trills that gave the picture of endless burining of hell and evil. Paganini then compromised but his crude behaviour had forever tainted the minds of the people like a stain of indellible ink on white cloth.

In modern times where greatness, ingenuity and skill are still monopolized by a certain few as many are encourage to develop their skills, it had been inevitable that people develop a rather crude behaviour towards others who have not the skill that the other has. In Paganini's case, he was able to acquire gold, greatness and glory through his skill though there was no surerity that he lived a satisfied life. Humility does go a long way in achieving true happiness.

Ah, wonder lingers amongst few who are thinking as to why a post such as this was made. Today, the students of our class were given topics chosen from the list that the students would like to write on. I was, in a sense, disappointed that I was not permitted to write about the behaviour of Paganini and how people could learn from it. Instead, I was asked to choose from two other topics that I would also like to write about. Quite convoluted issue but, I grasped that chance to write and post the essay here. It is rather worth it, it is, after all, my view.