I'll leave the school on volunteering days, get two steps away from the door and pull out my iPod. I plug myself in, press play and all of a sudden, it's like I just put on a pair of color-tinged glasses.
Music changes the way we see the world by changing how we feel at any given time. If someone is listening to, say, a calm and gentle tune tinged with melancholy, that person will see it very differently than someone standing in the exact same spot listening to hard rock.
The words are also an important part of the musical experience; I would imagine that the way I feel listening to my favorite Christian rock would be extremely different from how someone would feel listening to angry, rebellious music about drugs and violence.
It's amazing the extent to which music influences our emotions. Maybe we should all take a moment to stop, turn on a particular song and examine ourselves to see exactly how that music changes our immediate worldview.
Music changes the way we see the world by changing how we feel at any given time. If someone is listening to, say, a calm and gentle tune tinged with melancholy, that person will see it very differently than someone standing in the exact same spot listening to hard rock.
The words are also an important part of the musical experience; I would imagine that the way I feel listening to my favorite Christian rock would be extremely different from how someone would feel listening to angry, rebellious music about drugs and violence.
It's amazing the extent to which music influences our emotions. Maybe we should all take a moment to stop, turn on a particular song and examine ourselves to see exactly how that music changes our immediate worldview.
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