Music

Exactly what is music? Why does it move us? Is there anything better at setting a mood? What is more pervasive and more universal than a love for music? It never comes down to whether or not you like music but rather what kind. Yet I don't have a universal anser as to what and why we all like music. To best discover my reasons for loving music I think it's best why to describe why I like a particular song.
I digress.  As we often say, "...the beat goes on." It reflects our attitude about life. How no matter what comes or goes this beat goes on. In a song where the base is missing or prevalent it has been determined by how much the artist wants to make his listeners feel the aforementioned theme. But leave the base behind and you still can make a good argument that harmony can do this on it's own.
The voice of the song is mesmerizing. It takes me back to a time when I had just got out of a bad time. But what's really cool about this is that I enjoy listening to the song because I am able to still listen to it today. Proof that life indeed does goes on and that happiness is imminent, just a matter of sooner or later. There is something that I was exposed to early in life that made the noises his voice makes synonymous with persistence and patience. Maybe repeated positive experiences with these noises around or just repeated exposure to media that had a positive aura with these noises. Either way it seems that I'll never be alone when there is music around. It's like hearing someone tell you of their struggle and yet admitting there is some beauty amidst pain.
It seems music is more than anything a drug. A way of getting away. Because we always come running back to music like addicts. For me I use music to get away from my insecurities. I often take a method of living from a song and make it mine for those few minutes I'm listening. Because of though I am may be feeling a lack of confidence, loneliness, or confusion, the song allows me to break away from that state of consciousness. Music seems to allow us to alter our state of consciousness. Here in college if alcohol is involved so is music. I see now it's because it's all ways of alter our consciousness. Just remember the last party you went to. The music was probably so loud that even if you wanted to remain in your current state of consciousness you had no choice. But that's point right? I always wonder why so many people love parties other than obvious reasons (like the hot girls that are there, or the fun in being under the influence). Really it's just a place where an altered consciousness has no choice but to take over. And that's appealing to so many of us.
So next time you see someone altering there conscious then you know that either they don't like it or they just enjoy the others better.