As I write this post I am simultaneously sampling music on Amazon and Youtube. Music has always been an escape for me, a source of comfort, or an expression of feeling when I was unable to create these for myself. Some of my most treasured memories of music involve being six years old and sitting in front of my grandparent's tv watching CMT all day long. Another is listening to Coldplay upon my airplane's descent into Paris on my first trip to Europe, a place I had longed to visit my entire life. A less happy time music has come to play a major role in my life is when I would lie in bed at night and listen to songs that expressed how I felt after my first relationship ended. Music is an amazing outlet for human emotions. It also is a great way to preserve and conjure memories. Although I have no musical talent, I have respect for what music can communicate that the spoken or written word cannot. Even a piece of music that is simply instrumental can convey ideas and feelings that words cannot. I know that no matter what life throws at me, music will always be an inspiration to me as well as a profound way of coping with unavoidable disappointments.
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