Brutal reminder of something

[riplo]

This guy seems to have a super amazing life purpose - translating old undeciphered music scripts then conducting his orchestra to perform them with the exact alcohol, banquet food, atmosphere etc it would have originally been performed in. It would have been the first time the songs were heard in 100s of years. He was crazy passionate and poured his whole heart and soul and life into his work - then one day got a coldsore which infected his brain by pure chance and within a few weeks he was reduced to the above. 

I don't even know what lesson to draw from this necessarily although there must be something there. I like to think there's always some way to grow consciousness if you just choose to -   even in concentration camps Viktor Frankl style, but I don't know where I would start if I was him. I guess having as a firm principle to always in daily life try and be present and aware of the inner body etc - then gradually his consciousness would rise, because although it would always seem like the first time returning attention to the present the effect of this constant meditation would accumulate anyway. He can't learn new info though so unless he knew to already he's pretty fucked. Seems like unnecessary cruelty from our abrahamic style god