Musician In the Rain

My friend used this picture on his display picture for Messenger, and just when my eyes darted over his name, I saw this picture and was instantaneously hooked. The picture depicts a musician wearing a coat, and a hat, with an umbrella, only, the umbrella is beind held up over his musical intrument. Although I never held as much love for any musical instrument as much as this man may at that moment, it isn't hard to see exactly how much love this man places for his intrument, in fact, he's willing to sacrifice his own well-being (considering the risks of getting sick while standing in the rain) for a materialistic object, only, is it materialistic? From what I understand, an instrument, if one falls for music, becomes ones love. Only yesterday, my sister, due to some unfortunate circumstances, was depressed, and directly upon hearing this news, she brought out her harmonium and started singing her heart out. It's amazing how a couple of minutes with her instrument completely cleared her mind, helped her find clarity and simply calm down. Of course, for the some of us here who are musically challenged, simply listening to music sometimes paves the same path for us. This however is not the point, the Musician in the Rain, is amazing simply because this man has done something that we here, should be doing. In order to make this simple I'll use one of the SAT's formatted analogies: Musician's Instrument is to Musician as Earth is to Mankind. The instrument acts as a means to support the musician, it is the source of all its power, the nature of the relationship is symbiotic. The relationship with mankind and the earth is very similar, if not completely identical. But, if there were to be a picture called "Mankind in an Meteor Shower," the umbrella would surely be over our head. Despite the fact that every single thing that we have till this day is a result of our Earth, we neglect it. We continue to rip apart the ozone, deplete its resources, use its water unwisely; and whats worse is, we still don't realize it. To think that skin cancer may be a good enough sign to stop emitting greenhouse gases and ozone detroying molecules. But no, we continue to freely emit all the smoke neccesary to satisfy our own desires. The Musician in the Rain further goes to exemplify what we should be doing, not only in regards to the earth, but to every single person that is in our life. It is a photographic manifestation of the perfect act, to help others, instead of always thinking of ourselves. Actually taking time to place our umbrella over the man or woman sitting on the street living off coins and garbage, over children who have suffered from loss of parents, over victims of the many natural disasters, over each other, instead of over ourselves.