KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING

In this so called life, it’s amazing when you can feel your life going somewhere.
Like your life just figured out how to get good, like, that second -- and it goes like that and things become better on the horizon. I have to say that one of my major passions in life is music and its powerful sound can affect our emotions. I really have this play in mind and mostly magical thinking on my mp3 list, playing them in endless loops and singing along as if in prayer. Consequently, it helps us to enjoy our lives with different kinds of music. Seriously, it blows me away, and somehow a message with a melody becomes a kind of holy truth in it. I would play songs that had steered me through tearful breakups, happy moments in life and just the normal days.  

 MUSIC and LIFE run parallel and it describes MY LIFE in many ways. It is one of the few things that are constant to me. My life without melodies and harmonies would be totally empty. I think it is like the memoirs to my life as it has been there throughout everything with me. The rhythm and so with the lyrics inspires me everyday. I believe music has the ability to convey all sorts of emotion. Whether the emotion is joy and happiness or sadness and despair through rhythms, harmonies and the lyrics music shows it. I just realized, I have already written a blog about my passion to music before. So what really made me come up with this kind of topic? It’s all because of my dad’s genre of music. Papa is a stereo- head. He listens to all the classic country and blues guitar legends. In short, I think his love for music while I was a kid influenced me to love and appreciate music in all forms. It seems, it is his need in order to get through his daily life. His taste to music is all Frank Sinatra, Abba, The Carpenters, Michael Learns to rock, Perry Como, Tom Jones, and so on and so forth. 

Mama loves sweet and romantic OPM songs. One time, I was on my verge to go to sleep then all of a sudden, mama played a song on her phone. It made me smile because the song was juvenile and it’s a teenybopper song. Anyways, there’s nothing wrong about it. That’s my mama! Her taste of music is cool! Since she plays a bunch of love songs on her list, it makes me stomp my feet on the floor or just tap my hand on my pillow until I fall asleep; and sometimes as I listen still,  it fills my heart  with joy and  it also gives me goose bumps. The effect that music can have on our emotions is tremendous, as it can bring people to floods of tears or bursts of laughter.  Like a time machine, you can paint a picture while listening to a song. It has the ability to wander our thinking and imaginations. Admiring music in this way is a lot like admiring the sun when it rise  and when it sets, the shapes we form in the clouds, the chirping of birds early in the morning. It is beautiful, but at the same time very scientific, based on patterns.  Enough rambling about it.

Throughout my life, music has always been a major influence. Well, everybody lives on music. We breathe every word and we dwell at every melody. It’s the one thing in my life that makes sense and is a huge part of my life. Music is, and always will be my life; my soul, my greatest achievement, and my passion. I want to end this again by saying that MUSIC is indeed the language of the soul. And what the soul feels, only music can translate.

-dyoyzee-