In life there's very few things that keep me sane, but one thing I know that'll keep me together is music. Throughout every good time or bad time in life I can always remember walking around with earphones in my ear that were attached from some device. It went from a CD player to an IPOD and then I finally graduated to just having all my music on my phone. What makes me actually laugh to myself about this is that this goes for majority of people and mostly for similar reasons.
Music has a funny way of relating. You ever listen to one song over and over again, then you tried to listen to another song but you couldn’t because you just had to go back to that first song? Yeah me too. Its probably because something in that song is touching your soul. I remember when Natasha Bedingfield came out with "pocket full of sunshine" I had it on repeat FOREVER. At the time I honestly was very happy (so obviously this was long time ago LOL) and no matter what anybody said my spirit couldn’t be broken. I honestly felt like she was the only person who truly knew how happy I was and understood the excitement I woke up with every day. But not every relation is all great. There was also this breakup song that I had on repeat for months (for obvious reasons). The amount of hatred in this song was the amount of hatred I had for the person who ultimately cheated on me and lied to me for no reason. Hearing the words, I love you but I hate you in very same sentence made me not only know that she related to me but I made me also know that I wasn’t the only person in the world who had their heartbroken and still loved the person that broke their heart.
Music also has a funny way of creating the best times to give you the best memories. There are a lot of songs that I listen to and I remember a certain time and place that I was listening to that song or even that happened and even a special time in my life. Everytime I hear Aaliyah's " Back and Forth" I always think about my family all being gathered at my aunt's house cooking and playing cards. No matter where I am or what im doing this song takes me back to a simpler time in life where I didn’t worry about what seems like millions of people calling and texting my phone, going to work or writing down my next meeting. It was a time when I lived freely and laughed hard. Lots of time I try to recreate those memories or at least those or at least those same feelings. To do that I have to remind myself to slow down and let things flow. I wouldn’t even do this if it wasn’t for music recreating those memories for me.
I think tuning out the world has to be my favorite thing. Music has helped me tune out the world and that has helped me cope with so many things. Sometimes I just takes listening to your favorite singer or rapper and tuning out the world to get peace of mind. Its something I do on a regular basis and it has helped me when I didn’t know how to put the words into a sentence to tell someone what's wrong with me but certain song said it for me and I knew and that’s all I really needed.
Music is a big part of my life. To be honest, I couldn’t function without it. Think about it. Whats your favorite song and why? Does it have a memory to it? Did it help you get threw the world or hype you up to do something you usually wouldn’t do. Music really is medicine to the soul.
