There's Music In You
It's kinda weird the power that the music can have, how he can make us think of people or moment of our life.
I'm talking about songs that we used to listen like every day for some weeks or even months and then you move on to another songs you know it's those "songs of the moments" we got, or that I least got, and then a year later (more or less) you listen to that song again and that’s when it's just magic, because it can suddenly bring so much memories so fastly. Souvenirs of that period of time you were listening to that song so often, and the feeling is so powerful that it can bring you to tears, not sad one, not especially always anyway, it's just that for me it makes me feel all over again the way I was feeling to that time of my life, whenever it was some months ago or 10 years ago, the music takes me back to that time. I can picture all those people I was hanging around with at that time, but I’m not only remembering things or the people, like I said the thing is I also feel all the joy, the sadness, the stress, the anger, or whatever I was feeling back then it's all coming back to me just by listening to that particular song that used to be my "song of the moments". I find it amazing how I can have all those memories coming into my mind like it was yesterday. Feeling everything again is what often make me teary eyed while listening to the song (depending on what I'm listening to) and yet also bring a smile on my face, cause it kinda makes me feel nostalgic too sometimes, but most of the time it’s just nice to have this kind of "flashback" to your past so I smile. And so I love when I’m suddenly in the mood to listen to this or that song again and the magic happens, in the first couple of seconds, it’s there. I’m back in the past. Back to that feeling, to those people, I close my eyes and smile. It's nice.
It's just great to have that kind of time travel machine with music.
Here's just few examples of moments/memories some songs bring back to me:
- I have this song that I used to listen to a lot when I was around 14 then as always at some point I moved on to other songs, so that’s not a song I’m like listening to every day now but just randomly every now and then and so everytime I'm listening to it now I really love it cause it brings me back to that year, and it was mainly a really great year, great friends around, lot of laugh shared with them, good time in school, good grades there, lot of fun, just nice stuff that I remember from that time, and so I just can't help but always smile and feel all nostalgic when I listen to it. I love it.
- Another song, not a song actually but an album, that I used to listen when I was in holidays in Greece some years ago, especially when I was sunbathing, so I was like listening to that album every day for like two weeks, then later again I got other songs of the moments after that but then I remember it must have been like 3 months later or something I listened to that album again and it happened again as the first song started playing I was suddenly seeing myself laying down next to the pool under the sun and I could almost feel the warm of the sun all over again, even though I was actually in school at that first time I listened to it again (I remember it was during a lunch break) and yet whenever I am when I'm listening to that CD now I'm most of the time back in Greece in summer time, it's pretty cool.
- And I will end this by talking about another souvenir I got from a song, actually not really a song but more just a music cause it comes from those kind of kids cuddly toy who plays music to like help babies to sleep if you know what I mean, anyway so it’s a melody I was used to listen as a little kid of course and I don’t know when I was may be around 12 I find this toy again so I just listened to the music and I suddenly had few tears filling my eyes, because the melody immediately made me think about my grandmother (the mother of my mom) who died when I was only 5 years old and I always think that those very few memories I have of her might not even be real, because I was so young to really remember lot of things about/with her now, and yet when I listened to this melody, I could picture her, I remember her smell (especially that hair spray she put in her hair), I could remember her apartment, I could picture myself laying on my little bed at her place, just those few little things that my mind still remember abour her, and so of course I get pretty teary when I listen to that because I barely got to know her but it's my grandma and listening to that music often makes me feel that something's missing, that something being to have at least more memories of her if I haven't been that young when she left. Anyway, I’m not listening to this music that often though cause well, it’s only a kid/baby music thing lol and because this one really is bittersweet to me, but again, it’s still a great way to have some sort of time travel ^^
The memories just come more easily when we have music related to it. It sometimes makes you remember about stuff you didn't even know you still have somewhere in your mind.
Yes, this post was pretty random and long :P