Life Should be a Musical

Sit and ponder with me for a moment, the idea of having your life be a musical. Now, who hasn't gotten the tunes from a Broadway or Disney musical stuck in your head at one point or another? If you say you haven't, I'd bet you just don't know it yet. How many of you have sat down at some point in your life and just wanted theme music to be playing in the background?

Now, as some of you know, I wrote my senior paper on the effects of music on people, and you know what, I still hold firm to my beliefs that music can affect people for good and bad.

Even more, I think that life should have theme music playing in the background. Hehe, how funny would that be to see people walking around with their own personal music playing around them? Yes, some people would have more somber music playing as they walk down the street and others might have violent music playing around them, but still, it'd be cool. It'd be so cool to see people randomly break out in song too. Reminds me of a Bjork video, "It's Oh So Quiet," where an entire city acts like they're in a Broadway musical.

Of course, there would be problems with noise levels and people wanting privacy... yada yada yada. And then there might be people who complain and whatnot, but there's nothing more theraputic than belting a song that you enjoy whether or not you sing well. In fact, I have plenty of theme songs for my life, and they're constantly evolving.

Sometimes I think the iPod commercials got it right when they show people breaking out in song and dance randomly in life. And who knows, in a world where daily life turns into a musical and people have theme music, maybe there might be more understanding and peace. Maybe there will be less miscommunication, and less depression because people get their feelings out. I think that's one large problem in today's society: people don't know how to get out their feelings, emotions, thoughts, hurts, etc. These are things that are important to the individual, and more often than not, very important to those who love them. As lofty as this sounds, it might even decrease the amount of abuse, divorce, and overall pain that goes on in life. Now, I know that with the choice to be a part of this life, we also chose the pain that comes with it, but at the same time, how much of that pain is something that we take upon ourselves but could be avoided?

Right now, in my life, I have about 600 theme songs that I cycle through. Some have words, and some don't. Some fit my mood perfectly while others only fit one particular memory. There is something about music that anchors itself within a person's memory. Music helps with memorization, helps with increasing thinking and development. How can those things be ignored by most people and get brushed aside? Music helps each individual uniquely. It is a basic theory, but at the same time vital in my life, and that is the fact that music plays an integral role in every person's life.

And people who have developed theme songs, that's even better. With those theme songs, a glimpse into their thinking comes through. It shows how they esteem themselves and even more, how they esteem others. Yet still, music is slighted, distorted, interpreted incorrectly, and disregarded. I guess in the end all of this is just the opinion of a person like anyone who reads this. Still, who can deny the influence of music in their lives?