Music's Impact on Mood: A Personal Perspective
Music has become such a big part of me that every spare chance I get, I plug in my earphones to listen to the music of my choice.
You may decide to term it addiction but I wouldn't. To me, listening to music is like breathing. You can't possibly say breathing is an addiction, can you? 🤷♂️
Music is a necessity😀. A divine gift from the crafted hands, lips, or toes of musicians.
Sadly, I never get enough time to listen to music but I try as much as possible to squeeze music into activities like walking going to my shop in the morning, returning from the shop, and eating.
Unfortunately, I can't play music while having my bath because the last time I tried to, I ended up flaying my arms too wide and my phone fell into the half-filled bucket of water 🥲
The music didn't stop playing and every time I hear the song- I Drove All Night by Celine Dion, it reminds me of the period after my phone fell when I went two months without a phone.
No one in my family even sympathized with me because, before the phone falling incident, they complained severally about how I always had earphones in my ear and playing loud music that prevented me from hearing when I was being called. This was many years ago.
I have different songs for different emotions. I enjoy all genres of songs provided they are not too loud and the sounds aren't brassy.
There are also songs on my phone I haven't listened to for a long time because I haven't gotten to that mood yet...😀
Whenever I'm sad, I play slow melancholic music. Logically slow melancholic songs being played during sad moments would make one much sad but that is not the case for me probably because when I am sad, I try all means possible to think of happier thoughts and so I consciously put in effort to understand the lyrics and absorb the beats too.
This is my favorite part of every music and if a singer is to get that wrong then I would be totally disinterested in the song.
That is why my favorite artist would be Yanni. He specializes in sentimental jazz.
It is how he has over a hundred songs if not more, all of them sounds of the piano he so excellently plays and each one having a totally different sound.
It is a blissful experience to listen to him and if you have not yet, then I envy you enormously for the thrills and pleasure you are about to experience.
Whenever I'm reluctant to read which I can assure you happens almost every other day lately, I listen to Delacey's Black Coffee album.
I'll admit I get so excited and swing my head to the rhythm of the song forgetting I'm supposed to read but then the little lead swinging sweeps me off my reluctant mood to read.
There I'll be reading till the close of my eyes, my computer and I part and this is well over four to five hours later.
Most times, a particular song I play reminds me of a certain period of my life, and if this instance of my life is one I wouldn't want to remember then it makes me extremely teary... I would give an instance....
So some ten or nine years ago, by 10:00 pm, a rather ungodly hour I know, I got a text message from a girl, I wouldn't say she was my dream girl but she always said "Hi" to me whenever she saw me in school back then in the university and that's a very rare occurrence these days where everyone has their phones in their faces, me inclusive so I can't really point fingers. I would just say, I'm not a saint.
I replied to her and we talked for hours about the most random things all the while.
Chris Brown's - "With You" playing and as you've guessed already or not, alongside the music playing was me occasionally blushing and trying hard not to smile.
Sadly, due to some reason, I'd rather not share but which revolved around me being too preserved we stopped talking and whenever the Chris Brown song I mentioned earlier comes up, it reminds me intensely of that period and there goes the tear glands of my eyes overeacting.
I've had my song playlist for over 5 years now and I keep updating them as the need arises.
So I can very much say every song I have now is suitable enough to either make me less happy, energized, relaxed, thankful, motivated, or even angry.
For this night, I'll just say I'm thankful for life, grateful for my family and the genuine friends here and also for successful solar business day. I am playing that song above from Akon as I am heading home now. Feel free to listen to it.
I've just locked my shop for the day, Goodnight.