I'll be fifty one years old soon and in that time have learned many things - Life has been a long lesson and whilst some I've brought onboard quickly others I've had to learn over and over.
I recently learned something about myself, inspired by a special and unique human being; The lesson was well-timed, as many self-awareness lessons are, and it reminded me of the joy of learning, developing and growing as a person and the pleasure of self-awareness.
Some lessons have been hard to learn, others easy; Some have come from positive events and actions and others from great adversity but all of them have had value and I felt inclined to share one with you today because I've been thinking about it a lot due to a mentoring session I delivered to a young chap in my office.
The trigger
For a long time now I've worked and operated in high-stress work environments - I'm not curing cancer or anything, but they've been emotionally-charged and performance-oriented and the consequence of poor performance is often unpleasant. It's meant I've had to find ways to switch on and off...A trigger of sorts to provide an emotional kick in the pants and to allow me to be on, when I need to be and off when I can be.
I use music to do so.
Music starts me in the morning, provides emotional impetus for the day ahead and whatever it may hold; Known and unknown. I use the same music for that each morning as an alarm on my phone. I wake to it and it triggers me emotionally.
It starts like a ticking clock, and my eyes open...From there it builds momentum, a little like my day does; For me it feels like the sun cresting the hills to the east of my home, the rays reaching out to touch me... it's time to move, they seem to say...That's what this piece of music does to me.
It gets complicated a little further in, like my work day usually and then falls into a nice rhythm that to me feels uplifting and brings clarity. It just feels nice.
I remember, what seems a lifetime ago, I was laying back on the hood of my car at the beach, back against the windshield and the sky turning blood-orange in front of me as the sun dipped away behind the horizon. The breeze tousled my hair and the waves offered a counterpoint to the music playing on the radio...I can remember the track on the radio that day and every time I hear it I think of that very moment...That's what music does for me. The track on the car radio that evening? Endless Summer Nights - Richard Marx. (1987)
Neither of the above descriptions probably mean much to anyone else and neither should they. But that morning wake up track brings me clarity, motivates me and triggers the part of me that does what's required in my work day.
The track I wake up to is called always with me, always with you by Joe Satriani and if you're interested you can take a listen below.
It's this musical trigger I was telling the young fellow about as he was struggling to compartmentalise and it was...Well, it was fucking up his chi and mine too. I gave him the concept of using triggers to start up or shut down from a particular aspect of his day or life and he seemed to understand and to like the music trigger.
Back in the day when I wore ties every day it was the music and removal of the tie that trigged a mindset shift from work to not work...Now it's the music and the small of vanilla in my car as ties rarely happen these days.
It gaps me from whatever I've faced that day and triggers the switch from work G-dog to weekend G-dog, shooting G-dog, chat on Discord G-dog and other G-dog's I don't want to mention.
I don't want to make this a long post, I do enough of those as it is...I guess what I wanted to say is that in finding a way to draw a line beneath things, or fire things up, can help provide a more balanced and fulfilled life which, I figure, most would like.
I have been a musician all my life and like many varied styles of music, but what's consistent is that it all reaches into me and touches places that generate great value, comfort and solace...Or fires me up...
There was this one time I listened to the Blood rave track from Blade for a few hours, non stop, prior to some go-kart racing...I was fairly focused that day...It didn't go well for the others. Carnage sums it up. Lol. That's a story for another time though.
Music is a trigger for me...It helps me find the places within that I need at any given point and never a day goes by in which I'm not listening to it, or creating it. I can pick and choose to suit my needs and it's pretty cool thing to have in one's tool box I think.
How about you? What does music mean to y'all? Does it do the same for you? Change your mood, provide a full stop behind actions, activities or attitudes? Does it fire you up, make you feel sexy...Tell me what music means to you and how you use it...And feel free to share a track.
Design and create your ideal life, don't live it by default - Tomorrow isn't promised.
Be well
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It just dawned on me reading this, that I have spent an entire morning without so much as a sound. Do you ever enjoy the sounds of life?
I am sure you do when out culling and camping right?
But this is strange for me to just not have some music on for an entire morning, birds, cats, engines or (loud exhaust pipes) fading in and out in the distance. Wind in the trees. I did not even turn on the noisy rock water fall fountain this morning sitting here on the deck.
But I did just down my sixth cup of coffee..!
You and @scubahead have created a KrazzyJavaTrukkerMonster, Monster... Lmao
This silence has been unusual...
Unusual, yes, but unusually nice.
As if the fucking krazzytrukker needs to amp up on coffee! He's krazzy enough! Lol.
In answer...Yes man, silence. I mean just the planet moving about me, no human noises, is one of my most cherished moments. Out culling, when I hike, kayak, camping...Music is always with me and, as the legit @jaynie said in a comment to this post, music is an integral part of my life and amplifies each moment in the best of ways. But...This may sound dumb, but...The world devoid of humanities noise is like music to me. That stream passing me by, the rustle of the leaves as I walk, the breeze in the trees above and grasses around me, the ocean, the sound of a birds wings as it speeds by me, the call of one animal to the other. Music.
I hope you're well my bru. Drive safe and keep the shiny side up.
Well said, I long to get far enough away to hear only what you described so well.
To escape the engine noise. It is ever present in a Truckers World. A world of Kaos & Confusion.
The noise of mankind. It never seems to stop.
In the distance over the bird songs and resident hawk screeching, our local wild turkey flock chattering, etc...
I could still faintly hear mankind and that noise. If I ever found a way to escape this noise. I would never come back.
Best to You and Faith as always.
I pity those who have never truly enjoyed the simple pleasure of the sounds of nature devoid of humanity. It's special. You'll get out of that truck someday, and you'll get engaged with the planet. I know them big wheels gotta roll, but try and find a break.
Isn't it amazing how music can take us to places and times. I remember my motivational music to get psyched up for wrestling matches in high school listening to Stxy (mostly Renegade, Blue Collar Man, Grand Illusion). This many years later, turned into healing music as I worked through trauma and other issues. Alan Roubik. one of my favorite musicians, designed music specifically designed for healing. I spent months waking up to "Keys to my heart", and going to sleep to "7 Chakras" during a particularly rough portion of my life journey. 7 Chakras is one of my favorites, very cool relaxing music for meditation and sleep. If you play it on decent speakers, you can actually feel it vibrating the various chakra areas throughout your body as it goes through the different songs, each designed to resonate through the body at different frequencies, from lower to higher. I still use the "Keys to my heart" as one of my favorites when getting on airplanes (which I hate), before settling in to a nice "Shaman's Heart" by Byron Mitchell which is designed around "Hemi-Sync" binaural stimulation techniques (but that is a whole additional post).
There are entire studies and disciplines related to sound and it's effects on the body. All the way from Tibetan "singing" bowls to ultrasound baby graphics, to sonic kidney stone disintegration. To say that sound and music has no effect on us physically or mentally would be foolish.
The link between association of a particular mood, memory or feeling is or has been trained in us as part of our history and learning. The affect of particular frequencies or vibration patterns, well now that is a whole different level of understanding we have not yet fully identified and cateqorized.
Enjoy!
K
Clearly music has meant a great deal to you throughout certain times in your life and I'm not unsurprised the benefits have been immeasurable. Music is such an important aspect of life and I'd say that whilst many, like myself, cannot define or clarify why, most would agree in some way. It's funny, I sometimes run into someone that doesn't listen to music other than what they may hear generically when going about their life and my brain has trouble computing how they get by in life.
I have so much mood music and rely on all of it at some stage, depending on what mood I'm in or want to be in. I listen to all genres also with each providing an element of value depending on the situation.
It's interesting about the effects of sound on the body. I saw how music (and animals for that matter) had such a profound effect upon the old folks and dementia-sufferers at my dad's nursing home so I'm not surprised the concept goes much deeper. Those Tibetan singing bowls...I saw a thing about meditation based around that and it's pretty interesting the state they cold get themselves into just through sound. So interesting.
I have some music I listen to at night and one track in particular that makes me feel so relaxed and soothed...I've not been sleeping well lately for reasons I am understanding of, and its helped. This is a remix version but you'll get the idea...I rely heavily on this track, as you do with those you mention.
Ahh Music, I guess I might be a bit of an oddball (Yeah I know whodathunk it) as I work in reverse. I Find Heavy Metal (All Varieties) and Old school Hard Rock really calming and they help me pick myself up when I'm low.
I love Blues and Jazz and Old Country when I feel a bit at a loss with myself, and Techno and Rave Music when I'm working on something Artistic.
Mexican Banda and Norteno, Rap and R&B and Classical Music Help me tune out and focus.
When A Buddy of mine died a few years ago (Huge AC/DC Fan) It Turned good songs into amazing songs with memories attached.
I guess music is one of those really personal things, doesn't matter who you are or what your into you can usually find common ground with a good track or when someone pulls out the guitar at a party.
I will say according to just about everyone my playlist is a train wreck... other people get really confused when it jumps from Alabama Thunderpussy to the Prodigy followed by a soothing helping of Leadbelly.
Guess its an acquired taste.
So...@rubido an oddball? I never would have thought! 😂
I like some heavy metal also, in fact there was a time when I listened to a lit of it...I find it, not relaxing, energising...It amps me up so...Yeah, you're a bloody oddball bro! Lol.
It seems you have a taste in music as broad as my own and I think that's how it should be. I have a mate who only listens to Chris Isaak...Literally. I mean, I don't mind the artist but that mate...I want to ring his fucking neck sometimes. Bloody Chris Isaak all damned day. I was in a convoy riding in his vehicle once...I almost killed him.
The playlist thing...Yep, sounds like mine too.
Thanks for commenting.
Gotta love it, I had a friend who did the same with Bon Jovi, It got to the point I threw their phone out of their own car window while they were driving me to Hospital. Being in pain can make you do some strange shit.
Ungrateful? Yes, Nescessary? Also yes.
He Forgave me.... and hasn't played Bon Jovi around me since! Win?
I'd say that was fair play...My mate wasn't going to lose his phone though...I was going throw him out! 😂
At least your bro stopped playing it...Mine...Every fucking time...Chris Isaak. The horrendous part is I started to like it too. 😀
Had such a good giggle at that Blade reference, lol! I think we all have that one song fit for carnage of some kind haha! Music, is literally an extension of who I am. It starts and finishes my day as well as filling every moment in between, but each moment of is different and a trigger for different things. My mornings are filled with a very particular style of music which puts me in the right mindset for kicking the day off and getting focused on the things I have ahead of me. When I write, especially if it is something personal or close to my heart, I will generally fixate on one particular track which will literally be put on loop for the duration of that writing because it feeds the inspiration for that particular piece of writing. Come the end of the day and I start unwinding, which is code for cooking, lol - then again my choice of music is completely different and will generally be things like golden oldies, sometimes country etc.
Music is an integral part of my life and amplifies each moment in the best of ways. I think it is really wonderful that you thought to take this creative kind of approach to assisting that guy at work. That kind of "solution" is something he will be able to apply to many areas of his life.
Very nice track by the way :)
Lol...Yeah I'll tell the go-kart story someday. I used to race as a younger bloke, around my 20's and was quite serious about it...The event I refer to in this post was a work function, I was 38 and...Still a mad fucker on the track. I see red when I get that helmet on. It's a major malfunction of mine. But that event...It was funny. I'll tell it someday.
Music is life...There's no other way to say it I guess. I just couldn't be without it. I'd say that 60% of what I listen to is country music, modern country music. But I have so many musical interests it's hard to list them. For me it's not a band or artist thing, it's a sound thing, a feel thing. I don't care who makes it...If it moves me than I'm on it. Sometimes the company I'm with makes music even more memorable.
Also, I do the loop thing too...Also when writing. I know what you mean there for sure.
You know what's great?
You cook to relax and I like to eat...Seems like a fortuitous combination. 😬 (Yes, I know that's your emoji.)
Seriously though, some tunes, food preparation, braai, wood oven pizza, burgers or so on...Good company...Life doesn't really get much better. I'm a simple man.
That little tacker at work, the lad...He's a good sort but struggles for focus which in my industry must be...Focused. Focused focus. Applying focus to finding focused focus then focusing on it to keep ones' focus focused is essential. (I could have gone on further here you know.) Lol. I figured you got the point though.
I guess I like to pass on some things I've learned along the way things that worked for me, most of which are not industry-specific but life specific. If he takes what I said and applies it, even the concept in some other manner, then he'll be able to move forward a little more easily. If not...He's on his own, it's his life after all. As a childless fellow I feel compelled to pass on what I have learned. I would give much for a little knucklehead to pass on my life-lessons too. I don't know, I guess I feel I have something to offer. Maybe egotistical.
Methinks you know what you're talking about.
Music is and will always remain the best healer for any problem, no matter how serious it is..
This is true! Music can be comforting, bring a person back from grief, pain and sorrow...Of course, it can take people there too as it is often a trigger for recalling memories. Still, I can't imagine life without it.
Thanks for commenting Gabriela.
Yeah definitely, it actually remember me of lots of persons that are not part of my life anymore, more than happy memories, but I still love listening to music. Hope you have a great weekend!
Thanks Gabriela, I hope you have a great weekend also!
Of course you love Joe Satriani 😁 you shredder!
Funny, because as a musician, I don't listen as much music as I used to. I realized that it kinda clouds my songwriting process, especially at the moment when I have to write a new song every day. I am also a sponge, so I don't want anyone influencing my work.
When I was working as customer support last year doing long hours, I was listening to movie soundtracks, The Lord Of The Rings put me in the right calm state, and also the series Vikings soundtrack has an effect on me I cannot explain, it's like caffeine to my ears.
When @rubido comes for a beer we put some drum and bass, or hip hop.
But music is here definitely everyday, I teach the kids, I am trying to get my son to sing "I'll be there" by Jackson 5, a tough one but he is so good at reproducing someone else's work. I am a music teacher, and realised I don't teach them enough music.
Do you still play sometimes?
Carvin' up that axe man! Lol...Or something like that.
Truth be told I played bass...At a very rudimentary level. I was good on the piano though, (better than good) and could get a squeak or two out the trumpet...No six-string skills though.
Song writing...Now that's an art. I can understand you don't want to be influenced. It's like when I wrote my book...I didn't read anything else.
Soundtracks are the best man...So good. I listen to so many. Oblivion is on repeat usually. It's great that you get the kids into it...Just banging a pot with a wooden spoon has value...Start it early. Get @rubido on it too. Lol.
Yeah, I play...Piano. I have one still. no trumpet or bass...I'm sure the neighbours are happy about that.
I hope my boy has musical talent, he has an interest. I'm the only one that cant play music in my family lol, I really wanna learn banjo...
Put an instrument in the kids hands, you'll soon know if they like it. Not that I'm a parent. Nature couldn't trust me to be. 🙂
Also, my wife plays the banjo. She is ok at it...Not great, but enjoys playing. Puts these little finger pick things on and plucks away. Sounds good.
Its what I wanna treat myself to for Christmas, a good old beaten up Banjo. Id feel bad playing something that looked new. I also wanna get the boy a few instruments, He plays around with a lot of my buddies guitars so that my be a place to start.
Its great she can pluck away! Im secretly envious of all my musical friends.
I think Santa better come good this year and bring you that banjo!
Thanks for sharing .. Music without a doubt is a major emotional trigger.. Can bring us out of ourselves in a good way or down in a bad.. You can compare the same with love. Ain't life grand..
Music and love go together yes. Music and anything. There a track I have that every time I play it I could close my eyes and be in Paris...Music has that power. It's magic.
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it. 😀
Oh man! What an awesome post and never a truer moment. And OMFG 80s music! The best. The beat, the melody the rhythm. It progressed into the 90s for abit but personally I love 70s 80s and 90s music the best.
I think for the very reason you state, memories. I wasn't alive in the 70s but I grew up on it as its all my mum ever listened to.
80s and 90s was awesome, I have a sound track to my life.
Lombada was my grandfathers favourite song, I lived my best summer of my life to that song. 2003. Got my licence, car, open road, beaches, women, little money, not a care in the world. Lombada on repeat included Salena and Ritchie Vallens.
Following years for me Madonna like a prayer was pumped, there was a nice remake of it with added base.
Poison oh I love that song brings me to 2005,
summer of 69 is more 2008 and chilling with my partner and when we went "official".
I can go back to my youth Piano man, cats in the cradle, that other song "leaving on a jet plane don't know when I'll be back again.
Beer, I need it and this music. Too bad I have work in the AM. I know what I'm doing this weekend.
It's funny for me now, to see how music has changed over my life. I often laugh when music is released which is based on some older version...The young ones are like, yeah man, new school! and I'm like. Wankers. Lol.
It's confronting to come across people who say things like license in 2003 and all...I was married for 1o years by that time. Lol. Getting old sucks, but I've got music to keep me company.
Or when you see est. 1998 and people are like "that's old school" and you think what? That wasn't even yesterday. Then you realise they weren't even born yet lol
Although I am still relatively young myself 🤣
Yeah, you'll hear it, and relate, as time marches on. It's inevitable.
I make jokes about being old but, well, I'm rockin' it still dude...I think so anyway. I've lived a lot of life in 51 years and hopefully I'll last a couple more...Time will tell. (Ya whipper-snapper!)
Oh man, right there with you. Some days it could be New Order, Beethoven, Bach, or even something like the Beatles. Some days it will just click, and life spins back into focus. Whether it's jangling guitars, swelling strings...whatever, i use it more to get positive when the garbage gets too much.
One of my all time favorites is this one :
I hated it growing up as it was overplayed endlessly, but this one has a rawness to i didn't grow up with. It's obviously not live, but there is something very primal lurking beneath the surface (I think anyway).
It's interesting to see how music brings people together...Some of the best #weekend-engagement topics have been music-related.
I can tell you've got a broad musical taste and [in my humble opinion] that's how it should be. Life is far too short to be spent in a one-dimensional manner. There's a whole world out there, may as well enjoy it. Thanks for commenting.
Whilst you use words like whilst, it's not often I pause mid-way and fire up a new bowl......
Proceed. And whilst I'm so self-centered I rarely reblog because I don't want to bury my own content, sometimes I'm just triggered. Distance, too, that's another difference of ours. But I know what you mean by music as a trigger and I know that Marx and Satriani song well.
I don't expect you to listen to the whole thing, but at least listen to the first 10 seconds. On the job, I was that guy who ate while I worked and slept at lunch. This was my alarm clock, they're from where I'm from:
I know you're a big hip hop guy and that's cool. I think we've discussed it before...I was around back in the early 80's when it hit Australia and got into it a lot. I liked NWA a lot. I drifted away from it though when it...Went wacky and mainstream. I don't dislike it, for me it's that there's always so many other options. I'm a country dude and so country music appeals. I like the simplicity of it.
"Wake Up!!!!"
Lol...Ya banana!
Hey Galen, I just listened to that Alarm Track again that I sent you. Cuz I just woke up, I guess. 🤔 Did you make it all the way through? The end, there's a skit, and they talk about 2020 as it's the most eye opening of all strains and the music even fades in and out when he says 2020. Fun fact: that's Green Thumb from a band called Cypress Hill and he's talking about 2020 'about' 12 years ago.
Interesting.
edit PS - I love a lot of country too sir. But I'm from LA.... George Brooks er.. Garth, not so much. But that NWA group you mention... quite a bit! I'm just a home grown hip hop fan. But that doesn't mean the Rascal Flat concert isn't a post itself!! Oh man! And then there's also the Trace Adkins one!!! Good morning, sir. If that ain't an excellent memory to wake up to I don't know what is. Happy Friday (I just checked. It's friday)
Hey mate! Nah, not all the way through, I'll go back though, take a listen. Interesting.
You will be 51! Mate you dont look even a day older than 35 tbh!!
For me music is salvation mate! At times its even sacred! Language, if you dont understand it is a barrier. But music mate, no matter in which language the lyrics might be written with, one will always understand what the rhythm and melodies are trying to imply! That is why they put that golden disc with Hello from the children of planet earth in voyager!
Its been quite a long time since I've visited your blog! And for that i sincerely apologize! And I'm thankful that i did now and found this piece. It was very refreshing:)
Yep, old bastard huh? Thanks for the compliment.
Life happens and people drift in and out of it...The good thing is you've come back to my blog and found something nice to engage with. I try.
Music knows no language...It transcends that barrier...It's like love which does the same. Music, and love for that matter, moves through time and space, it connects people, touches them within and draws a direct line between those in that connection. Music. It's life. As is love.
Music is never far away from me. What genre is probably a pretty accurate read point for how I'm feeling.
You know I love the blues, and just this week I've gone back to the first recordings and to a new current favorite track and video. It's amazing to me (though probably no one else here) (youngsters) how much MTV changed the way we listen to music. Now when I'm searching individual songs I do it on YouTube.
Rock and Roll is important to me, as is classical. Both of them contain a good many tracks that I don't have to do anything to hear, just go to the radio station in my head. I think that comes from hundreds of thousands of miles on a motorcycle. Some day I'll write about and show the contents of my bullet box. It's a wooden shotgun shell box (500 round case) that has a couple of thousand dollars worth of 'stuff' that I have used trying to graft sound to motorcycles. Should read 'unsuccessfully tried'.
So now I have a question for you. Is there a song that comes to you when everything goes completely to shit and you are right down to it, root hog or die? I do. It's Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 'I love Rock and Roll'. I have no idea why, it's never been a particular favorite but when shit comes to shove I can hear it plainly. Weird.
So. I told you I'd found a new current favorite track, and for the first time in a long time it isn't Beth Hart. It's her tour mate, Joe Bonamassa. He's in Satrianai's league as a guitarist, and a pretty good solo artist too. I think he plays 6 different guitars in this video.
I'm not surprised to read passion in your words and I know how much music has been a part of your life. I thank you also for the Joe Bonamassa lead which I'll be following the same as a junkyard dog chases an intruder. That track is boss dude.
So...Is there a track I go to. Several actually, and they chop and change as life does.
Adagio for strings - Samuel Barber and the Oblivion main track by M83 are two of those. Right Now by Van Halen and, Sitting Pretty - Florida Georgia Line also. There's a few.
Thanks for commenting.
I have liked, and listened to, music for most of my life. The past couple years I have listened to a bit less as I have been listening to audio books, but I still put on some music now and then. I have discovered the joy of satellite radio in my new vehicle and have heard many songs from my youth, including several I was not really aware of who the song came from.
Music is something that gives to a person for life...Sure, tastes change, mine did, but that doesn't mean one can't enjoy something from the past.
Love the concept of a trigger you bring forward to mark a change in the day. Unlike you, I don't use music for this. I think I use some kind of trigger as well, but this is more subtle. I do it with my mind only, no external triggers. For instance at work when getting frustrated and therefore (negatively) emotional, I turn this around in a few seconds to a minute by taking a (super) short walk and think of some happy moment in my life (this contains music usually, eg a festival experience, a music piece, some moment with friends and/or family or something like that).
I fully understand what you got out of hours of looping 'The Blood Rave'. This type of music is meant to get the mind pulled away from whatever it's occupied with and flowing through and with the music in a more or less 'trance' state. The best experience is when closing the eyes and either stand up and express the emotions with some bodily movements or simply sit or lie down and let the mind be grabbed fully by the music. Though this particular music doesn't do a lot for me, I love styles that comes close to 'The Blood Rave'. Partially because it has this hypnotic effects on me and allows me to empty my mind from any stress it has. I can party for a whole weekend, being dead tired because of lack of sleep, but feel totally refreshed in mind and spirit.
When I learned about the various Techno styles of music back in the early 90s and learned the 'rave' aspect, the mind aspects I talked about, I discovered many other styles can have the same effect on me. Before I knew Techno and experienced the rave, I was more or less a casual listener to music. Afterwards, I became a true listener. Regularly I see myself sitting in front of my speakers, listening to some piece of music with all my attention. No tasks I can execute other than crawling into the music and go undefined places. Whenever I take the time to just do this, I come out with a more positive mindset then I started. The interesting part, sometimes I only require a few minutes to turn my mind around. That strong an influence music can have, well at least on me :)
Years ago, I discovered this classical piece below which is a perfect piece to achieve the same mind cleansing from whatever stress it has. Also, I was very much surprised when I first heard this piece, how this classical composer was more or less ahead of its time. I classify this music as 'rave' music before the term 'rave' was invented hahaha
I do the walk thing at work too, that always works a treat. 5 minutes later I'm productive and on-point. It oxygenates the brain or some such thing. I feel better in the outdoors regardless so it just makes me more productive to take that walk.
I normally hate that trance music stuff, but sometimes it helps as you've said. On that occasion it brought a lot of single-minded focus. Worked well, too well. Lol.
I like that piece of music, thanks for sharing that. I think it's something I could listen to a lot so I appreciate you introducing it.
Super, I do hope you listen to Simon's piece often. It serves a similar prupose as the rave music, though less electonics with the piano sounds, but similar hypnotic allowing massive mind travels 🎶
Too well 🤣🤣 I guess I shall say this out loud when I'm on my next rave. Wondering wha my friends will say 🤣🤣
Don't rave and drive go-karts. Lol
Hahahaha Go-Karting is just another form of Raving {LOL}
Ah yes, I tend to agree. :)
Ah I imagined the scene you described, with the car and the sunset.... Music can definetely help, for me it can be classical, rock, pop,jazz, depends on the mood. Lately though I have found that silence helps me more in certain situation or just the sound of nature. It makes me calm and helps me get my composure. Great songs, I like them!
When I was a teen I always played Depeche Mode, it helped me get my nerdy mojo. Years later, still a fan. I like very much the classical music lately, just yesterday I was listening to
Depeche Mode: But Mary, you're only 21...I wouldn't imagine you'd even remember Depeche Mode! 😉
Oh G I wish. Add another 10. I am 31 but feelin' like 18 hahahhaha. I liked them, I still do. But damn they are old now hahaha
Oh yeah, 31...So old! I'm 51 in a couple weeks...A veritable dinosaur. Still rockin' it though.
Sometimes. 😏
Hahahha we are all dino as time passes by. Our soul though is always young, when will you turn 51?
Under a couple weeks...I'm not so big on my birthday and won't announce it here.