Shinin'

"No job, no life, just music..." - Charles Hamilton

I'm sitting in my living room, alone in the house, listening to my ipod on this GREAT home theater system, and I can't help but zone out and think back on the past few months. And I must say... College isn't a joke. Not that I thought it was going to be, but Damn. The work has been everything but easy, but I'm still managing to keep my grades solid, for the most part at least.

But let me stop myself there before I digress any further. This post is about and was inspired by music.

Have you ever been listening to a song and then, after a while, realized that although your eyes were open, and you may have even been looking at something or even talking to some one, you weren't focused on or aware of anything going on around you? It's always fascinated me how music could slip you into a sort of trance, and make you zone out like that. You lose awareness of everything around you, but, somehow seem to enter a state of deep thought on some issue completely unrelated to your current environment. When the right song comes on, music is able to stir up thoughts and emotions within you that are so powerful that your subconscious, if only for a moment, completely loses interest in the "real" world. Often, I can only speak for myself, but music tends to force me to think about things that I try to force as far to the back of my mind as possible. Necessary evil, I guess. Can anyone relate?

As Always,

Pax, Amor et Musica