Music and Me
Music is a simple pleasure. All it takes is your ears and your imagination. Music is that one thing that’s always there besides family. It touches our emotional being and evokes moods and feelings that are sometimes difficult to express. Excited or sad, angry or glad, music has a song for that. When I was only in third grade I came home from a long day of school and was sat down for a talk. My dad had told me that we were moving away. Kids that I had been friends with since the first day of preschool were only going to be a mere memory now. My dad asked me how I felt and I didn’t have an initial reaction at first. I sat in my room and needed something to take my mind off of the thought. I looked around the room and could not find anything interesting to do. On the side of my bed I found my CD player. I had not listened to music for sometime and decided to turn it on. I immediately became filled with sounds of emotions expressed through the beats and lyrics flowing through the headphones.
I accepted the fact and tried to move on. Going to school with kids that would soon be forgotten was hard on my 8 year old mind. I tried to get my mind off of the topic by playing sports or watching TV, but that did not do it. I found my CD player again and started the music up again, I was amazed that I could relate to the words coming of the headphones. “I got to move on”, and “life is filled of memories”, this made me think about my life now.
I soon realized that life would move on no matter where I was located at and the words in music helped me digest this. The summer came and gone, and I moved to the new town of Cedar Rapids. Most of my old friends became old memories and I met new friends to make new memories with. Still to this day when I can’t sleep, can’t think, or even when I don’t know what to do, I turn to music for answers.
