Hello all and how are you? Tonight I join listening to Reel Big Fish, after many weeks of not writing.
I am a student and so finals and the related homework and studying got in the way of my time to write this blog. Excuses aside, I am back and here we go again.
During the last few weeks of this semester I found myself preparing for all these exams and worse of all writing a 12 page paper which for some reason continued to cause my anxiety to say the least, despite my already being prepared to write it with sources and an outline and everything. I was choreographing for a dance class final performance and still working in the mornings at 5 am, for some reason 20 hours a week during finals. As the weeks of school dwindled and I just crawled and struggled through the last few days, my mood was deteriorating to say the least. I was on less then 2 hours a sleep a night for a longer period then I would like, and there was seemingly no time to relax for another few days. You get the picture..
As I sped down the freeway to school, trying to stay awake and trying to stay positive despite the sensations of exhaustion and loss of morale I was experiencing, I did something I hadn't done for a week or so. I turned on some music. To be specific, an old favorite of mine from high school, Reel Big Fish. It was music I had defined myself by for several years, it had been the music of my "clique" and my identity.
I had been trying to stay positive listening to "morningcoach.com" podcasts and meditating and relaxing other ways. But until that moment I hadn't listened to music for days.
I was instantly revitalized as I recklessly took a turn at speeds which tend to make my passengers cringe. I heard the horns and the distorted guitar of my high school days and I found the energy I thought I had already lost for the day. It restored my mood and brought me back to myself and I will admit even made me quite emotional for seemingly no real reason.
The moral of the story? At least for me-
Personal developement podcasts and literature are great. Meditation can be soothing. Sleep is a blessing. But when all else fails-
-Music can bring me around and set me right like nothing else.
So if youre feeling down and out or even if you feel great, get out that old high school favorite and let it blast as you drive down the street and just feel that nostalgia and
Life and Music and how they combine. An optimistic blog for those interested in self improvement and for those always have a song in their head, regardless of whats going on around them.
1 comment:
Hey this is Laurin (since apparently the comment apparatus doesn't want to know my name and will let me leave it under my aim sn). I don't know if you want people to read this or not... haha, I can always promise not to look again if you'd like. Anyway, all I was going to say is that you have a lot of oddly similar ideas floating around in that head of yours. Also you had good high school musical taste which, to be frank, can be rather rare. There was an actual comment somewhere in the inception of this note... however as my dad's puppy is chewing on my arm and he clearly demands attention I'll have to leave that for later.
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