a very special man

During the month of September this year, I came to know about this movie called The Soloist, featuring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.

What made this movie wonderful,unique, and touching is that the story is based on real people, real character, real life scenario.
Real life journalist, Steve Lopez was once sitting by a park drinking beer, when he heard a melodious tune of cello.

He soon realizes that a homeless man was playing the cello with only two strings! The homeless guy introduce himself as Mr. Nathaniel Ayers. Curious about a homeless guy who seemingly not in the right frame of mind would possess such talent, he came to know that Mr Ayer attended the prestigious musical Julliard school.

This deepens Mr Lopez's curiosity, and decided to write an article about Mr Ayer. Wondering how could it possible than a student from Julliard would end up on the streets, he called up the school administration and was told he never attended the prestigious school.
Later on, the administrative staff called Mr Lopez that he overlooked the graduates, but according to record, Mr Nathaniel indeed was enrolled in Julliard, however bumped  out at the end of second year. A call to Mr Ayer's sister,  Mr Lopez was told that Mr Ayer was a child musical prodigy who mastered not only the cello, but possessed equal mastery in violin and other instruments as well.
He was enrolled to School of Julliard where the faculty members thinks Nathaniel is one of the most gifted prodigy of our time. Unfortunately he started hearing voices in his head, and was subsequently diagnosed to have depressive schizophrenia.
No doctors or psychiatrist is able to help Nathaniel, except for the soothing uplifting sound of music as it assails into his senses.
Below is a clip of how Nataniel played duet with another musician. You'll appreciate his talent after watching this video.

Mr Nathaniel today still hears voices in his head, but no longer homeless.
Watching this, I realized what music is to him. He could just stay in the open air irrespective of whether and still get lost, or rather high in his music. To him, music is a bridge that connects the gap between the ugly reality of life from the beautiful, heartfelt, and warm heavenly place during when he is musically intoxicated.
Just the look on Nathaniel's face when he was playing the musical instruments tells me music is his lifeline. His life revolves around music.
God is fair. Nobody is perfect. One excels in a field, but deficit in another. Like the most brilliant mind of our generation, Professor Steven Hawking. His brilliance is off the chart, but he is paraplegic and could only move the muscle of his forefingers and his eyelids.
Beethoven, who was deaf, yet able to write musical pieces so beautiful so much so that it sounds angelic. He write by feeling the vibration the instruments emanates when struck a cord.
I sincerely hope  you have enjoyed reading this as I find it rather heartwarming and soul soothing. I hope it gave you the similar feeling as it has given me.