The Power Of Music

Ever since the time I was just a "nugget", as my new Sunday School teacher calls her baby, I've loved music. Some of my earliest memories are of my sister putting on Abba and then dancing around with a duster in her hand, trying to get me to have a positive attitude about the fact that I had to clean. Let's face it - everything in life is better with a song. I second the motion the seven dwarves had when they say that whistling while you work is better than just working.

This may sound more than a bit cheesy, but I truly feel that being in choir has made a positive impact on my life. I have friends that are faced with the same situations I am, and I can be just as mad as they are about them or feel just as bad as they do, but take me to fourth or fifth period and let me get involved in the music and I'll be skipping down the halls with a smile while my friends still skulk their wayst to class. I'm not saying that my friends are pessimistic by any means. I'm just saying that I have music that touches my soul and they have equations that fry their brains.

I firmly believe that music makes a difference in life. I know people that listen to rap music that can't ever seem to force a smile, while others that listen to Mozart can't seem to stop smiling. I'm not saying that you have to listen to classical music to be happy, but I am trying to make a point here. I know that when I'm in a bad mood and I want to stay in a bad mood, I turn on X96 or some other similar hard, sulky rock station or CD and sulk in my room. When I don't want to stay in that bad mood, though, I turn on the MoTab or even upbeat country music or something like that. Life's attitudes can truly be altered by a simple melody.

I believe that music touches your soul as well as your ears. Peaceful music brings peaceful feelings of rest and repose...unhappy people who record themselves scream with a drum beating in the background don't usually produce the same effect. All I can say is that I'm so grateful I have discovered the cure to almost any problem...a good, beautiful, soul-inspiring song.