Music

Hello, lovelies! How are things? I needed a break from studying, so here's a post for ya'll! That was weird. I should never say "ya'll". Anywho.......

This is all about music and the memories/feelings it procures. Weird, quirky ones, ones that make you reminisce, ones that make you cry; we're hitting everything here.

First of all, how weird is music? Like you listen to something awesome/sad/crazy/etc... and your brain immediately links it to an emotion or memory (think Inside Out...). Isn't that just so weird? Am I the only one who is amazed by this? Yes? Okay then. Thanks, brain for this weird idea.

There are weird connections (at least for me) between songs and memories/feelings. For example: "Lost Boy" by Ruth B. makes me terribly sad because of a dance recital last year, the song "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots reminds me of New Mexico, and "Sherlock" by SHINee still causes excitement because that was their opening song when I saw them in LA. 😁

Music is amazing because it makes you feel the emotions that you were feeling at that time when you heard it. I can have the song "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift stuck in my head, and immediately think of Hawaii (that song came out while I was living in Hawaii, and it was kinda the theme song of a couple months there... That is, before Kpop kicked in... XD)

There was one event that sparked this post:

The day after Tiny Kitten was taken, my mom and I went makeup shopping (because how else do you deal with saddness?). I tried my best not to look like I'd been crying for an entire day, and had to choke back tears like 100 times. On the way home, we were listening to music, and the song "Photograph" by Ed Sheeran came on (you can probably predict what's going to happen). Wow. I made it halfway through the song, and before I knew it, I was bawling again (getting soaked by a faulty gas pump didn't help either). It was a rough car ride the rest of the way.

Flash forward to a couple days ago. I'm sitting in the car, on the way back from an awesome day (and by awesome, I mean we went to Chick-fil-a AND Hobby Lobby). I was in a GREAT mood, everything was amazing. But then, lo and behold, "Photograph" comes on the radio. It's such a fun song to sing, so of course I was singing. And then I remembered that day when I couldn't get Tiny Kitten out of my head. And, you guessed it, I was crying again. In fact, I'm not sure I'll ever be able to listen to that song without crying or at least missing my Tiny Kitten.

Isn't music just insane? How can something that's just vibrations make your heart skip a beat, or make you want to dance or even just make you want to sing it?

 Music is something that's always been there for me. Unlike the rest of my family, I don't exactly enjoy playing instruments. I LOVE singing, but I'm not too keen on the whole playing music thing. I can listen, sing, and dance all day, though. So that's what I stick to at the moment.

Music is really weird. You can stat listening to a sad, whiny love song, and start missing relationships that you never had and a non-existent love interest. How funny is that??

Well, I'm off to dance some. I almost have this choreography down!!

What have been some of your favorite/saddest/most exciting memories involving music?

 Live Long and Prosper, and if I'm ever having a bad day, BLARE EPIC KOREAN RAP/DANCE MUSIC!! YASSSSS!!!!