Heartbeats

Music holds a very special place in my heart. It is the glue that holds my life together. Without music I would essentially be nothing. I wouldn’t feel like getting up and living life if it weren’t for music giving me the power to survive through all the hardships I overcome. Music is there when I have nothing else to hold onto, and it can come from almost anywhere and anything you can imagine. Music is a symbol to me that helps me remember moments in my life that really counted. At every listen to a song I can relive the moment that song was part of my life, or an event that made that song part of me.

From relationships, cruise ships, and best friends, to the first song I ever danced to on stage, music has left some pretty important marks on my life that I do not soon intend to forget. You can learn a lot about yourself and your experiences by what songs remind you of what events. Some songs bring you to tears; others make you grin from ear to ear. Another person may feel that the songs that make you sad, can make them happy, or that a song that makes you smile makes them sad. But we all enjoy music in some form and are affected by it no matter whether we know it or not.

If the whole world were silent, how would you deal with it? Sounds in daily life are music to me. I can find a rhythm in anything I want and feel the beat behind it. Music can be anything you want it to be; there is nothing right or wrong about any sound. The freedom of expression is all that is necessary for me in music. I can be anyone I want to be, and I can say the things I want to say, even if I can’t find words to come right out and say it. Music can mean whatever you want it to mean, and it can be about whatever or whoever you want it to be about. Your interpretation is all that matters, not what anyone else thinks it is about. Music has its own meaning for every person and each reason is different. If the whole world were silent I would probably go completely insane.

Whether you like hard rock, rap, metal, ballads, trance and techno, country or blues, music is a part of almost everything we do. When we hop into our cars, we turn the stereo on. While we do our homework, we play music through the computer speakers. On our way to class, we put our iPods on and drown out the rest of the world. Even when we sleep some of us put our headphones in and have our favorite artist sing us to sleep. Movies and television shows, video games and sporting events, they all use music. Music is in a very wide variety of things that are a huge portion of our lives, and it has become as large of a staple as all these items combined.

You can feel the way music moves, and you can see what it makes you feel. Dancing is a compilation of moving how the music does, and showing the emotion that you feel when you listen to it. You can be someone different, or you can be yourself. You can portray someone else’s story, or your own. There is never a wrong answer as to what, why or how you dance. Just like music, dancing can be anything you want it to be. You could walk around on the stage for three minutes to the beat of the music; that could be your dance, or you could stand still in the spotlight in silence for a minute, then strike a pose for another minute, and finally walk calmly off stage as the lights dim. It’s about what you feel and what you make others feel. It is never who is right and who is wrong. Dance like music is open to interpretation and inspiration from any angle.