If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.
~Eddie Van Halen
In rediscovering what makes my soul glow, it occurred to me that it isn't the big things, the massive milestones of life, turning 30 or 40 or 50, but it's the every day little things that I need.
Just as Eddie Van Halen said, if you want to get somewhere, you got to do it a lot to get there, every opportunity that you get, you have to grab with both hands to find the inner shine of your life. The things that make you cry with laughter or bring a spring to your step.
It's not easy to find these things every day when we are so often dragged down by the negatives of the world around us. Everyone seems to be fighting battles, some carry their battle scars better than others and we sometimes get caught up in the fray.
Something I have always loved is good music. Music that grips my heart and sways my hips as if it was my lover whispering sweet nothings in my ear and capturing my heart.
Do you know what an earworm is?
I learned this about 5 years ago when I had a huge milestone event in my life and through the entire day I had a song singing in my head in circles as if it was embedding itself with the emotions and actions of the day. I still to this day cannot listen to that song without getting teary eyed because it takes me straight back to the moments of that day, the huge life event that would forever change my world.
Music stirs the emotions and brings our heart forth. Have you ever heard the saying "when life is good we hear the music, when life is bad, we hear the lyrics?" It's so true that music unites us in ways that not many other art forms do. I've never met someone who didn't like some or other kind of music and while it is varied, it is still a universal tool of cohesion.
A few days ago this was my ear worm - INXS Never Tear Us Apart
Today I put this on while drinking coffee and thinking about life. About the future, about all the things I want to experience, about love and what it feels like. I remembered feeling butterflies in my tummy and the kind of quivering sensations that this song lifted up in me.
It made my soul dance and I felt happy, healthy, desirable, beautiful. It was exactly what I needed to start my day.