What an amazing world we live in today. It is truly extraordinary that we can carry around with us a device not much bigger than a postage stamp that holds thousands of our favorite songs performed by exceptionally talented musicians.
I, like many others in today's technological world, store music on a device and listen to it with little earbuds. I have maybe a thousand songs in total. They span a range of popular music from my youth, today's popular music, classical, country, big band, ethnic, folk, acapella, and on and on - kind of a mish-mash of many different styles.
But what I've found is that mostly I listen to the same one hundred or so songs over and over. They have essentially become the soundtrack of my life. Many songs evoke a sense of place, or a memory of certain people, times, or events. I once bought a CD from a street musician who sat under a tree in southern Spain playing his classical guitar. I don't often play it but each time I do I am instantly transported back all those years to that magical place. I wonder why we seem to be hard-wired to respond to music in that way? Do we like watching movies with a corresponding soundtrack because we are predisposed to do so or, because movie producers have trained us to like and expect it? I don't see that music has any direct connection to survival - it must be because we are about more than just survival.
I've got 4 of those, maybe 5 if you count a different Indigo Girls CD. :)
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