What Does Music Do For You?
In the last year or so I've learned so much about life and what it means to love and respect yourself. It's not easy to do, one of the hardest things you can do to be honest. But, one thing I have learned in the last year or so is how music makes people FEEL. I've never understood it when people talk about how music speaks to them, or how it touches them or helps them even, I've never understood that.
Well, in the last year my life flipped upside down and it was scary, it's still scary. I feel that it's hopeless sometimes, even though I know it truly isn't but it's hard not to feel that way. So last summer, all hell broke loose and my wife and I decided to get a divorce, that's a slap in the face for sure. After she moved out and we started sharing custody I was alone, truly alone for the first time in ten years, that's a weird feeling.
I had to learn in a hurry how to be alone with myself, I didn't know what to do. When I wasn't working I would play video games to fill my time. I wasn't working out or doing anything, go to work, come home, video games, bed. That's it! I was not happy, but I learned and I had a catalyst, music.
Huntr is one of my favorite bands, y'all need to check them out! Those guys are incredible. They released a song called "survive" and I'd be lying to you if I said this song didn't help, that this song didn't speak to me. That song woke me up, it made me feel strong and vulnerable at the same time. I would blare it driving home, I would play it all the time and soon I got back in the gym. You're going to laugh (I don't blame you haha) but when it gets to the end of the song "Put your chin up in the sky, can you feel it now?
Close your eyes and beat your chest, you hear that sound?
Ain’t no chairs left in my way for my dream to sit down"
Just epic! That part would literally make me feel so many emotions, it would make me feel so powerful and sad at the same time. I started believing in myself. So I got back into the gym harder than ever, I expanded my Spotify playlist and have listened to stuff I've never listened to before, I've made some killer playlists, I know what it means now when music speaks to you and it makes you truly feel. It's a damn powerful feeling, something I'll never forget. Survive in particular has a special place in my heart, such a great song. That part still gets to me, but it's a feeling of power and positivity now, no more choking back tears! So enjoy your music, feel it, let it capture you and take control, it's a wonderful feeling. Find out what music can do for you, it's almost magic. It will pump you up for sure, but there's music for all of your moods, music can save you.
