#19) Music

I absolutely love music. Last month one of my friends really made me think about why I liked each song I am interested in. He asked me to tell a memory I had with my favorite songs. As I thought about it, I realized that I listened to music through every exciting or saddening experience in my life. I don’t write in a journal very often so I feel like I get all of my emotions out by listening and singing to music. I have songs that remind me of specific times in my life with my friends, boys I have dated, and my family.

In high school, my girl friends and I had just gotten ice cream to celebrate my friend’s first kiss with a boy. We were driving back from the store as we listened to Taylor Swift with the windows down. We were singing and dancing to her popular song “you belong with me.” Two guys had pulled up to the light next to us and were laughing at us. We saw this and suddenly stopped in embarrassment, sinking in our seats, and cracking up in laughter.

Last week my girl friends and I were sitting in the library and noticed an old guy studying a table away. He kept looking over at our table so I told one of my friends that he was into her. I started singing “the Luckiest” by Ben Folds. “..What if I’d been born 50 years before you in a house on the street where you live…” Whenever I hear that song now, I recall the emotions I felt, chuckling in the library with friends over an old guy we had never met.

I will always remember these funny little experiences I have had with music and often recall them when I am having a down day. As I was writing this post earlier in the library, I was laughing just thinking about all of the fun experiences I have had with music. Everyone else in the library was so focused and serious. It made me really realize how wonderful music is because it just makes you happy. When I see people stressed and upset I wish I could just tell them how lucky they really are. As students of BYU we have every reason to smile. Uplifting music just reminds you of who you are and why you should be happy.