“One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.” - Bob Marley
I've always loved this quote because of its dual meaning to me. Firstly, it is saying that even when the music hits it doesn't hurt. But, to me, it is also saying that music takes away all of the pain that you may have already been experiencing. That's what music is to me, an escape to a different world.
Music is my perfect partner. It never leaves me, because even if one of my various music playing devices dies on me, I have CDs, or the radio to turn on and there it is right there. Always by my side.
I spend a lot of time alone, mostly because I stay up into the wee hours of the night and sleep all day. I don't quite keep the most normal operating hours. However, even when there is no one around, I don't have to feel all that alone. I have music there for me.
Even when I'm sitting in my room, awake at 5 AM for no apparent reason, I have a friend there with me in my earbuds.
I love music of all kinds. If you press shuffle on my music library you could get anything from MercyMe, to Slipknot, to Beethoven, to Stitches, to Def Leppard, to Willie Nelson, to Drake, to Owl City, to NSync. (Don't hate on boy bands, we all loved them on the early 2000s.)
I just went and saw Florida Georgia Line in concert last night, and at one point in the show, they spoke about the first concert they ever went to. Mine was Kenny Chesney when I was about 5 years old. I was so enthralled by the pageantry and comradery of a live show.
It just goes to show that music, in one form or another, has an effect upon all of us. It connects each and every one of us.
That is why I work in radio. While some say it is a “dying medium,” I disagree. I believe radio will never die because there will always be listeners like me. Who crave that connection that only music can bring to us. If the song I send out over the airwaves could possibly make an impact on someone or help them in any certain way, like music has helped me so many times, then I will work every day to help who I can.
So if you're ever feeling downtrodden, flip on that old radio, and listen to that person on the other side of the speaker. They may just be able to get you through it in an unexpected way.
