Music

Music. Such a simple word with a great meaning for many people. Whether its music you listen to on the radio, singing in the choir, or even singing in the shower. It is many peoples’ worlds as well as their hobby. For me, music is a very special element in my life. I don’t know how I could function every day without it.
On my hardest, sad days I listen to sad songs. It makes me realize that someone else out there is or was sad like me and that they can put my thoughts into beautiful words accompanied with a melancholy melody. It comforts me and surrounds me with its aura that it brings to me. It inspires me to make life better for myself because life is short.
On my happy, energetic days, I listen to something that makes me want to dance and move around. When I’m warming up before a game or race it gets me pumped up and gets me in the ‘zone’. It just fills my heart with this all consuming joy that I need to let out. It fulfills my passions and just helps me let go and cut loose.
And on those rare occasions when I’m feeling romantic or just in a loving mood I listen to those sappy love songs and feel a warmth in my soul as the marvelous words and tune touch me, forever holding me in the palm of its hand. It makes my heart swell so big when I hear the words of someone else proclaiming their love. It makes me wish I could do the same thing. But I think I might just keep my singing to just in the shower.
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson