Music and How it has influenced me

As a child you would always sing along to the radio to the music your mom or dad put on. For me it was the music my mom and I would always listen to. She loved listening to George Michaels, Toni Braxton, and Earth, Wind & Fire. I loved listening to the music with her as we were on our way to the super market. I’ll never forget the day when I realized that our days of singing in the car were over and we would never go to the super market together ever again. My mom had walked out the door, leaving all nine of her children just standing there with uncertainty and not knowing why she was leaving them. My father was there for us and our mother was nowhere to be found. Why? Why was she saying good-bye. Did that mean that all those fun times of us singing together in the car were over. I did not want to believe that this was really happening, my mother was really gone. How could she, how could a mother that loved us so much just leave us in a heartbeat. I would turn on the radio and play the songs that we used to listen to together. I missed her so much and I felt that the only way to really feel like she was still there was to hold on to one of her t-shirts and listen to the music. It has been eleven years since my mother had left us and every once in awhile I will listen to the songs that we shared together. Those songs saved a part of me. They kept a piece of her still with me. If it was not for the music that I listened to, it probably would have been a lot harder to deal with her leaving. Music has influenced me in so many ways. It has made me realize that you can loose so much in a blink of an eye, but many things can still be saved through the music. You must appreciate every single moment in time because once it is gone all you have is memory. Music is like that mother you ran to when you fell and hurt yourself. It always has its ways of making everything better. I look at life in ways that I would have never imagined. If I hadn’t listened to certain music, then this experience would probably not excist. Music allows you to go anywhere that you want to go. Sometimes my favorite places to go in my music are back to my childhood. When there wasn’t a worry in the world. Where the world seemed like there was nothing bad in it. When grandma and grandpa’s house was the best place to go. Now all that I have are my memories and music to help me get through most of them. I don’t know what I would do without music. It has impacted my life so much, but then again if I never knew about it would it have changed my life in other ways.