Let The Music Heal Your Soul...

Anyone who knows me at all knows what a huge part music plays in my life and how much it means to me. Every once in a while, I fall in love with music all over again. That's not to say that I ever fell out of love, but just that that excitement, wanting, gotta have more, louder! hits me again, and I simply cannot get enough.

Music is always a constant in my life, but in different ways. Sometimes it's background noise just to avoid silence, sometimes it's for mild entertainment. And sometimes, it's a NEED. I want...need to get lost in it, be surrounded by it, consumed by it, drown in it. One of my favorite things in the world to do is sit in my car, in my driveway or a parking lot or whatever the case may be, and turn the volume up as loud as I can get away with without blowing my speakers, and just sit, surrounded. Or sing along at the top of my lungs (as long as no one else can hear me). I love to sing, it's actually one of my favourite things to do. It can fit every emotion - I can sing when I'm happy, sad, angry. It connects you to something else in that moment. There's always a song that fits, that's exactly the "right" thing for you, right then. In the times that we feel isolated and lost and hopeless, music acts as a reminder that someone, somewhere has felt just as you do, and they lived through it to tell their story (and so will you). Sometimes it's just nice to know you're not alone in the world... and in some odd backwards way, someone really knows you, really gets you... Sometimes that could be all you have.

And then there's the excitement of discovering new music. Have you ever thought about like... how MUCH music is out there? How much that will never even reach your ears? It's kind of mind-blowing to me honestly. It's just like an endless plethora of life, love, pain, sorrow, joy, etc. etc. etc., mashed up into melodies for our listening pleasure. I'm reminded of "August Rush" - a movie that EVERY true lover of music should own, without question. Music is always around, no matter where you are, what you're doing or who you're with. It never deserts us, it never fails us. Really, it's one of the only truly reliable things in today's world in my opinion.

Music has literally changed my life - in a lot of different ways, but mostly positive ones. In it's own mysterious ways it's led me to life, laughter, love, healing, strength... and even to myself. What else has that ability, that kind of power? It may sound silly, but I kinda think it holds a lot of life's little answers. After all, there has to be a writer for every song, or it would not exist. They're telling someone's story, maybe one that hasn't even happened yet in reality. Someone is always listening, always looking for THAT song; the one that makes your throat dry, your eyes water, that barrels its way into your heart and suddenly, you feel alive again as if you were not just a moment ago. And when you finally find it, it's like you're just... home.