Do you really need to have a mission statement or an intro letter? A Holly Golightly sashay in front of the big window of Tiffany's? Do we need to have a point given to us? Do I have to put chalk to blackboard and designate a side for the reviews and a side for the analytical rantings. No, ideally it would be nice to have translucent emotional messages where magically everyone could share the same thought and each relate to it in their own way instantly. The next best thing to that would be music, however. It is the banner under which we congregate. It is the special sauce which we splash across, what would otherwise be, the plain toppings of existence. When we color the pages of our lives, we do so with the misty-water-colored-melodies that inspire us.
Music isn't just some trivial matter, it's defining. It's comfort can hold you in a warm place when you're cold. It can make the most daunting of tasks seem a little more tolerable. You have a personal relationship with the people playing through your ipod. You get to know them on a personal level as they supply the accompaniment of life. Every album is like a birth and a death, every song a child shared for better or for worse (because you're not expected to like everything). You hit that open road at the start of a long journey and what do you reach for, the music. It's a language operating entirely on instinct. It's completely self-contained within it's own words with each syllable caressing the tone of a melody. It's entirely freeing and universal to the soul as breathing is to the body.
Our musical tastes define us, they make up a crucial piece of our personalities. They're our anthems, our movements, our phases. Those musical appreciations are the all encompassing, all knowing, height of our personal identity. To exist in one moment with the right piece of musical undertone encapsulating everything with it's own brand of tenor and tenacity. There's no description for it. No amount of gushing or romanticizing about it will do it any sort of justice. It's felt from the heart and exhibited out every cell in the human design. For those folks who are like me in terms of music and it's ability to deliver the life's blood, the everlasting sustenance... this is for you.
