Music of My Life

Once a man said, “Music can change the world because, it can change people”. This quote was said by Paul David Hewson also known as Bono. I believe his words and I believe music can heal you. I also think that life, love, and happiness along with sorrow, anger, and regret all belong together in music. Every feeling every hope every being is intertwined with the love and being of the musical. Anyone can feel music for there are all types, whether it’s pop, blues, rock, soul, R&B, even polka and so many more.

Music is connected to feelings and thoughts, because that’s how you can write a song. No matter what feeling you can make it into a song, it can be happy, sad, anger and a lot of other emotions. People have been writing songs about everything since the idea of music was born. If you stop and listen to a song do you ever stop to think what the song means? I never given much thought to music or songs. Until one day I had an incident changed my outlook on life.

I was nine years old when I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Non-Lymphoma, a type of cancer around the heart. The treatment started two days after my 10th birthday, and I was depressed. My life was broken, my parents bickering, my own brothers and sister scared to come near me as if they would catch it to. I had no clue what I would do I felt like a freak an outcast. Then one day I heard a song that changed my look. I don’t remember the song or who wrote it, but I do remember the sadness and woe I felt from it. It helped me realize that there are other people like me. It helped me to heal.

I started listening to music then I mean really listen to the songs the lyrics and the meaning the artist is trying to tell you through their eyes. Each song I listened to helped me a little more like a hand on my shoulder telling me that I can. Music helped me all through my life then, through the thick and thins, and everything in-between. I’ve had a hard life my parents divorced, my uncle committed suicide, my mom was neglectful and a drug addict, I’ve spent time in foster care until my dad got me and my two brothers and sister out. My friends Lauren Bushel and Sam Coberly died.

Through all of this I was helped to heal by music, it was the one thing that held me together through everything I’ve been through and it always will. Music changed my life forever if you would just listen it could maybe help change yours.