How Music Has Changed My Life

When I was little, like any child, I loved to dance, and when a song came on I just couldn’t help but move. On family drives the radio would help to pass the time and fuel my imagination. The summer I was eleven however, unveiled to me the powers of music I had never realized or dreamed to be possible.

Everyone who knows me knows the band responsible for this: Hanson. Their music was the first to evoke feelings in me I couldn’t describe that provided more than a tune to tap my feet to or simple entertainment. To all who are inspired and transformed by music in this way, it can happen through any artist or genre. It’s that incredible moment when you realize that your heart is being sung through their song.

Music has played such an important role in why I have been able to persevere. It has been my one constant companion through everything, never letting me down...its power never letting me go. Through the obstacles, the let downs, the heartaches, it has welcomed me with open arms. I have never been the same since I let it into my heart.

Walls come down because of music. You wake up with a renewed sense of purpose when the story the singer is telling resonates with the journey you’ve been on, and even if you don’t find the answers, you know that someone else has struggled and fought like you and made it through to the other side.

There isn’t often a time where I can’t find a song to fit my mood, or to lift me up when I need it. Because I have been transformed by song so incredibly at an early age, I’ve been able to make amazing friends who are musicians themselves. I can’t sing and I don’t play an instrument, yet I feel as though I understand their passion and know exactly what they mean when they say to make music is as necessary as breathing. Maybe this is because I’m a writer, but I think it’s more because I know that music transcends everything and really is the universal language. I believe that my poetry wouldn’t be as colorful without a few lovely notes to inspire.

Above all, music keeps my dreams alive and encourages my soul to keep reaching until I touch the stars. It gives me back hope every time I feel it slipping away. It allows me to breathe again.

Thank you, Music.