Substantial Mess: Music

There is not a person I know that is not somehow influenced or moved by music. We're so passionate about it wether we are telling someone about this great new band we love or wether we are passionately bashing a horrid band we can not stand. Music can be a motivator, a healer, an antidepressant, a lullaby, and it can even bring out anger in us. From an early age, music is shoved in our ears as a learning tool. Kids love music. Even before they can speak they bounce up and down and show joy. As we get older music guides our life. There are specific songs we listen to when we're sad to when we need to get motivated to clean that bathroom finally. Did you know that there are specific effects on our brain when we're listening to music we favor versus music we don't? I found this video where it shows you exactly that. It sort of blew my mind. And by sort of, I mean it did.

Music can take us back to memories. You know that song you and your ex used to listen to? It comes on and all of a sudden you're feeling the same feelings you had back then. Or that song you and your friends listened to in high school, the song totally sucks now, but you love it because of the memories it brings. I personally go on a walk every day and listening to music makes me feel like the shit. I'm awesome, check me out. I'm walking to the beat, woo. Anyway. Music is crazy and it's a bit of a ambiguous subject to try and blog about. I just thought that video was insanely amazing. And I just wanted to say that music is awesome, keep listening to it forever and all of the time.

Also, what the hell? Prodigies are awesome. This kid walks weird but you'd walk weird too if you had multiple symphonies being composed inside your weird brain.