Day 22: Getting an attitude adjustment

 I believe in the power of music. It is a blunt force wind that can do great damage and carve beautiful canyons out of granite. I believe that music has influence enough to change us in deeper ways than we could ever grasp. I speculate that the music a person has on their top 25 most played list on their iPod will tell you more about the person than the people themselves could tell you. For example, I recently discovered that I very much enjoy british music. Even more so than american music. To me, this says that I love feeling foreign or different and that I want to travel the whole world round in this life.
       Music has the power to change a persons attitude at the crack of a whip. I know this from personal experience. When I am having a bad day, which happens often, I might listen to 3OH!3 or Paramore. Listening to this kind of music will prolong my anger and allow me to let out all the negativity that is circulating my train of thought. I am the type of person to hold those feelings in and letting them out every once in a while is very beneficial. If I bottle them up for too long I become a bottle of Diet Coke just waiting for a Mentos to break my tension. But, on the other hand, I could listen to Taylor Swift, Ingrid Michaelson or Lenka. These are the songs that you may hear me singing very loudly from the shower or in the car. This kind of upbeat, happy music will change my mood, as I said before, at the crack of a whip. My peevishness quickly makes a sharp U-turn onto Sunshine Avenue. Whichever one I choose to indulge in, more often Lenka than 3OH!3, my attitude changes to fit the music I bombard myself with.
       I know from experience that music has the power to influence people to become opposite of the way they were raised. This goes for both ends of the spectrum. Many people in my junior and senior classes were the type of people that listened to Acid Reign and Haunted Life. It was usually just loud enough that it would seep into my brain like car oil and affect my every word and action. It would most often transform me into a person filled with attitude, harsh come backs and disturbing sarcasm. What was the worst about it was that I wouldn’t care if I hurt someone, emotionally or physically. There were times when I would search for a station on the radio that played screamo just to get myself to be that rough edged person. Things that I would say and do when I was that person were so out of character that it would often scare people at how different I was. That is the power of music in action.
       Music can change people in ways that are of great help or of great destruction. Music is capable of altering anyone in a way that no other person or thing could. Music lives in me. There is power in music. This I believe.

P.S. I didn't take the pictures in this post. Gotta love Google! :D