As of late i have been a bit a bit slack about posting. I have gone now two days without a single post. I dont intentionally do this, but due to being so busy lately i have had to take time off from posting, and when i did get time to relax i was just too tired to put my thoughts down. That being said, it brings me to our latest topic...
To me as i get older, music has become more and more of a noticable emotional trigger for me. I've noticed that as ive gotten older, i've been able to associate things with certian songs. things from my past, moments in time if you will. Thus by hearing the song, listening to it on either the radio, computer, or an application that i personally look up and choose to play, brings back the memories, sounds, and even smells of the times i had while listening to the songs.
To this day, for example every time i hear DJ Rob Base's It Takes Two to make a thing go right, It takes me back to my first fall in South Carolina. I was 13 years old, and i was at my very first experience with my family at the SC State Fair. Hearing that, and Paradise City by Guns and Roses, and instantly im 13 again, smelling the elephant ears, hearing the Himyllian spin blasting dj rob base.... feeling the cool crisp air of the fall in SC. The corndogs are fresh, and the candy apples are shining beautiful deep candy red, and caramel tan. To feel semi alone, like i did then, when i was a new kid in a new town, having just started school a month earlier, well lets just say the insecurity i had back then was fairly traumatic. At the same time, however, to be with my family enjoying this great grand time of a state fair (which i never had in virginia, as metro DC didnt really have state fairs)was so much fun it was something you never wished to end. Half of me feels just like i did back then now when i listen to these songs. The other half, well it knows im not 13 anymore, and it knows that for the most part, i'll never be able to feel that way again.
Another Song/ group of songs is some of the Police's earliest work. Songs like Every step you take, or do do do da da da, take me back instantly to a pre teen age for me. I was probably 6, 7 or 8, and was living in Virigina with my mom and dad and sister. We had friends, that we had met in an apartment complex called Lyndhurst. It was off of Little River Turnpike, and i think it stands still to this day. I was very close with a little girl there, we were supposed to grow up and marry each other, according to our childhood thoughts. When my mom and dad got divorced we didnt get to hang out as much as we did before, and unfortunately both our familys had moved out of that complex a long time prior. (thanks to the internet though, and facebook, we've since re-connected and have had the ocasional chat, she and her family live up in the greater DC area still, or at least closer to DC than i do lol) But anyways, anytime i hear the Police's early work, it takes me back to being at her family's lake house that they were renovating(her dad was in construction) and nailing shingles on the roof, having fun in the loft he built for his daughters, and just playing and having fun. These memories i suppose i cherish, and while i didnt really think about it like that before i posted this blog entry, i realize i really do cherish them, and will for the entirity of my life. If only it were that simple to go back to those simple times and re-live them. Life is cruel that in the grand scheme of things you never know what you have, nor do you realize how nice life was as a child until it is over, and your an adult with adult worries.
I could go on of course, with more examples, in fact i was going to. However I thought just now I'd post a second post this morning, about the third song/group of songs. This will at least keep the posts at somewhat of a manageable readable lenght. I hope you know and experience what I'm talking about. If your around my age, go back and listen to the music of the times of middle school thru high school, and reflect. I am pretty sure you will experience some memories that are so powerful they can bring you to tears, for one reason or another... Until then, i'll be enjoying Every Breath You Take.....
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