Music

            Music is a big part of my life. Even now as I write this, I have my Pandora running and Eric Clapton is wailing away on his guitar. No matter where I am, or what I'm doing, I have some song in my head that I'm playing back and forth. I even wake up some days with a song already in my head even if I haven't heard that song for two weeks. It's something my father and I have in common, waking up with a song. Whenever I'm in an area that is very quiet and I can hear everyone moving around, I just wish some music would come on, anything that I can tap my foot to.

            Friedrich Nietzsche, supposedly, was a big believer in music being superior in a humans life because he once said "Without music, life would be a mistake." The literal meaning of this quote shows how strongly he feels what music does in daily life. Without music he states that life is a "mistake". He thinks there is no use for life if there is no music. This is true in my eyes because I believe music is a connection to superior beings in the universe. When I listen to those few songs that I just get goose bumps from, I believe it's a connection to the universe that no one can experience without listening to this music. I feel it now listening to a certain virtuoso by the name of Jimi Hendrix. The way he plays the guitar not only makes me wonder how he came up with this stuff but also how he stayed alive, even for how long he did, knowing how great he was and how the music he plays lets people like me experience the superior universe in ways unexplainable.

            Music IS life and without it, there is no reason to live. So take the stairway that music is and walk it up and experience for yourself the extraterrestrial and unexplainable good nature that is, what we call, music.