Saturday, 15 January 2011

The Power of Music

I realized that I am very sensitive to music. Or music is very powerful and perhaps few realize it?

When I am down, a click on certain music will cause the tears to flow like a broken dam. Of course it depends on the degree of down-ness that I am in at that moment. Then some worship songs will lift my spirits up almost instantly while some just instantly send tears and pulls the heart strings. Sometimes I don't understand also.

On the other hand, certain secular music when I am on my own I will not play them. I just don't like them. But when I am listening to it when I am in someone's car or in a mall or at a diners, I wouldn't mind and at times enjoyed them. But when I am on my own in front of the laptop, I wouldn't play them although I have them.

Then some songs are just badddddd. It tugs at the heart strings wrongly, causing me to cry all the time which doesn't help at all. So they just gets deleted from my system.

Sometimes I will listen to certain songs and the message from within will just come and hit me. I don't know. Perhaps it's something.

So I have to watch what I listen to. It does affect me causing me to either wallow in sadness or to be lifted up and joyful again. The angry ones of punk rock help me sometimes to express and let out my anger but too much of it does breeds bitterness so I don't listen to them for long or in long term.

So does music engage you as much?

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