this is something that i’m curious about. everytime i’m filling out my interests on things like facebook or whatever, i always put music and think to myself “well duh who doesn’t like music?” but when i really think about it, there are a lot of people where music doesn’t have a significant place in their lives.

take my mom for example…
yes she has an ipod shuffle but she only uses it when she works out and just has a random assortment of music from the 60s. when she’s driving, half the time she doesn’t even listen to anything at all let alone music. i can’t drive my car without listening to music!! i think that if i asked her what her favorite band or song was she wouldn’t have an answer.

how can someone not have music in their lives?! does it skip generations? i feel like almost everything in our lives right now revolves around music with ipods, cellphones, television. has music not always been so important?

i guess it baffles me so much because for me, music is a way of expression. we all like to be individuals and music helps us achieve that. there isn’t really anyone telling us what music we can and cannot listen to anymore and we’re free to listen to whatever we want. most of us our pretty proud of the music we listen to and it kind of becomes a sense of self.

does this mean that people who don’t really listen to music are missing a part of themselves? i don’t know…but i’m positive that if i didn’t have music in my life i would feel like i’m missing something.

how do other people feel about this? why is music so important? what does it do for us that makes us need it constantly? keep that on the backburners for awhile because i’ll think i’ll talk about this a little more in depth next week.

until then!