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We Should Be Thankful For Music

We have a habit of taking it wherever we go and turning it on before we even take one step towards our next destination.

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We Should Be Thankful For Music
Mark Soriano

You can play it through a speaker or make it with the Earth itself, music is always around. Without diving into genre specific characteristics, the most important thing to remember about music, and undoubtedly it's most important aspect, is it's accessibility to the human experience. A simple stroll through any city or town, you'll most likely hear Kendrick or Kanye blaring out of someone's car and Tom Petty serenading store patrons over the intercom. The best part of this kind of experience is that upon hearing it, you recognize that music is there.

Music is present throughout our lives and it has a habit of triggering anything from memories to tears. There have been plenty of times when I heard "Hips Don't Lie" and remembered Mrs. Duckert's fourth grade class: not for any weird or uncomfortable reasons, it was just on the radio all of the time and I still love it. Songs like that, among other more obnoxious punk oriented ones, are pieces that I carry into the day.

I have to have songs with me wherever I go and I absolutely do not care what kind of format it's in. At the end of the day both digital and physical copies of music offer the same services, that being hearing a song play. It's a beautiful thing that has found it's way into the lives of almost every commuter I've passed on the street, runner on the sidewalk and student in the library. We have a habit of taking it wherever we go and turning it on before we even take one step towards our next destination.

Many people refer to the songs that they hear as the soundtrack to their life, which a fourteen year-old me would've smacked those people. But an extra six years of life have given me a more fun perspective on people's desire to make their life more like a film with music. Looking back, I totally did yard work to that "Oh sinners let's go down, let's go down" song from Holes as if I was Stanley Yelnats III digging around yellow spotted lizards. And if someone were to throw "Holiday" on, I'd be howling and stomping louder than any Storm trooper from Star Wars. If anything, music can augment experiences, no matter what song is playing. As long as music is playing, a person is probably not far away using it to carry them through the day.

Music and people have an almost symbiotic relationship with the beat serving as our internal pace and the lyrics as our mantras to live by throughout our life. Of course, our tastes change as we do. Yet, music rests as an immutable force within our lives that we luckily can tap into whenever we want to sing, mope, dance and all in all, feel.

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