Monkey Business

Monday Night Blues # 2

PROMPT:Write a blog entry about music's effect on our feelings on sadness and happiness.

Music moves me. I can't help it. It comes in my ears and vibrates through my soul. I feel it to the core of my being both physically and emotionally. Music can make me soar, pick me up when I'm down, rile me, and even console me like a friend. There are days when I cannot help but be depressed. Music helps with that, some music helps me cry while other music comforts me or picks me back up - if only for the time it takes for the song to play through. Like I said, music can amp me up as well. On my manic days, I tend to listen to a playlist that is more aggressive like heavy metal or more akin to vanity (consider the songs "I'm Too Sexy" and "Oh Lord It's Hard to be Humble"). On laid back days I tend to listen to things like Bob Marley, Sublime, and Muddy Waters. When I need to quiet my mind, I choose classical, meditational, or tribal music of one kind or another. At then there are days when the only music I need is the music of the earth.

Here's one of my Pick Me Ups/Happy Songs:




And one that always helps me cry:




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