This I Believe

Yet another English assignment that I felt inclined to share.

Music is Magic
To me, life is a musical. I’ve made myself a world where it’s perfectly normal to have random bursts of song and dance. It’s those moments of my life that I love the most. Any time I’m feeling down or out of sorts, I just turn on my iPod, and suddenly I feel so much better.
I guess it all started in my childhood. I remember singing along to Bon Jovi, Styx, Journey, Cars and Meatloaf with my dad. My mom and I would listen to Garth Brooks, Shania Twain and Martina McBride. These wonderful people were the early patrons to my love of music. I didn’t limit myself to one style either. Classic rock and country were just the beginning for me. I now listen to pretty much everything but rap.
My dad was the manager of Putt-Putt Golf and Games when I was young. After school, my siblings and I would do our homework in the party rooms. Once we were done, we were allowed to do anything we wanted. My brother and sister would go go-carting, but I chose to help pick the music for the laser tag games. It was during this time that I fell in love with the songs “Amanda” and “There She Goes” by Boston and Sixpence None the Richer respectively. The mere mention of these songs now bring me back.
I love the fact that songs collect memories. Much like the previous story, anything by Chicago reminds me of earlier times. My sister got her own room when she was around 9 years old, and she had her own CD player for the room. The only CD she had was a Chicago one. Every time you would step into her room, you would hear songs like “Hard to Say I’m Sorry” or “Look Away”. Whenever I hear those songs now, I think of blue carpet and a Harry Potter bedspread.
Speaking of Harry Potter, I have a delightful quote from the first book. “Ah music, a magic beyond all we do here!” This is a quote from Albus Dumbledore, and I don’t think I could have put it any better myself. There’s something about music that just makes life better. Imagine, if you will, a life without music. There would be no dancing or suspenseful movie moments, all songs would just be poems. Don’t get me wrong, I love poetry, but once you put it to music you truly understand what the poet is trying to say.
I, myself try to express what I truly feel through songs. I try to find a song that goes along with everything. If I can’t find one, I try to write it myself. This is the only way I think I actually connect with my feelings. I’ve heard it said that music expresses what words cannot. This is true. Sometimes just by slowing down the tempo you get a whole other meaning to the song.
I would like to take all the opportunities I have in life and try to incorporate music into them. I feel that music will take me where I need to go. This I believe.