Music - The Best Memories

Until now, I have been sharing my thoughts and stories on up and coming artists that I think are worth mentioning. However for this post, I want to talk about music in general. I'm not a musician. I basically only sing in the shower, and can play a handful of Church songs on the piano. Still, I absolutely love music and can't picture a world without it. 

Why all the love?

I take the music that I listen to very seriously, and can't stand just listening to anything that's thrown at me. When a song can relate to what I am feeling at a particular moment in time, that's magic. There's just this certain rush of emotion, this excitement from the pits of my stomach, when I'm feeling a certain emotion - happiness, fear, anger, or just the giddiness of crushing on someone - and a song just hits it right on the head. And it's not just the lyrics, but the melodies as well. 

True Memories

I've kept a few journals and diaries throughout my life, and crack up to this day when I go and read them back. But I get bored very easily writing down things that have happened to me. It just feels like I'm taking notes on trivial things that I won't care to remember years from now. How do I remember things that have happened in my past, including events and emotions? Music. The songs that I listened to or heard at those random moments in time...

When I had the biggest crush on my ex before we started dating - "Secret Valentine" We The Kings

SEPTA bus rides to college as a little Freshman commuter - "Heartbeat" The Fray

A little rough/sad patch mid-sophomore year of college - "A New Day Has Come" Celine Dion

On the verge of my first ever breakup - "Last Goodbye" David Cook

Christmastime 2013, going on a million job interviews and listening to this before every single one to calm my nerves (I can still feel the snow and stack of resumes in my hand) - "Right Now" One Direction

Current day as I'm prepping to start my career - "Social Casualty" 5 Seconds of Summer

Can music journals be a thing?

At the moment, I am keeping a journal. It's my last year in college and I'm just finishing up the best internship ever at a radio station, so I want to have all of that on file for my future self. But what have I been doing at the end of each entry? Including a lyric to whatever song is relevant to me at that time. I can write down endless tidbits of my day, but the one thing that opens the floodgates of memories is music. The journal entries will help me remember what happened and the people I met, but the lyrics will remind me how I felt about all of it in a much deeper sense. 

Gotta love music...