music 101
February 18th, 2008 by Luke
I went through a spell a little while back where I was honestly trying to figure out how much music did indeed mean to me. It wasn’t an integral part of my life at the time and I wasn’t really known as a musician/songwriter first and foremost in my friend’s minds. So I sat down to figure out what I would do if music didn’t take off (which there was no danger of since I wasn’t exactly putting a lot of work into it).
I realized eventually, that music is more important to me than I had realized. I hate to be cliche and talk about how music is a form of expression and blah blah blah, but it is. What’s more is that I realized that it’s not just expression: it’s a release valve. If you have read the Relationships 101 blog, then you are hip to something that happened recently with me. Well, writing a song about that situation allowed me to just shut it down. Mostly, because the song was not a pining-for-a-past-love song, but more of a putting-this-behind-me-and-realizing-it-was-wrong song.
It just shut it off. Like magic. The problem is that it takes me too long to have to write those songs. I have to wait until I have gathered a fair amount of perspective on the subject, like a dam waiting until the water is a certain level and then releasing the water making way for new water (in my case I would, of course, be making more room for future potential problems and annoyances).
