Many a times life becomes a bit too tormenting for my sane self to handle. One of those moments where despite all the colors around you waiting to be noticed you choose to or more so cannot hep but only focus on the ones that make the void in you more palpable than ever, voluntarily making you isolate yourself from the best people in life. No matter as much you try you fail to reason all that is happening to you and with you, at times like these escape is what you crave, escape is what you need and in such hours of uncertain restlessness music comes to my escape.
I am very certain that I am not the only one to feel so, sometimes when you are stuck in this tug of war of being understood and failing to help people understand you, music gets all that is unsaid. That one comfort song after a tiring day comes like the warmest of hugs which maybe is the only thing you need at the moment. People say that ones taste in music says so much about them, now when I analyze so it makes so much sense.
your comfort song speaks about what you yearn for is it the need to be loved, understood or pilled up frustration, when we run out of vocabulary to express our deepest wants music takes the battle from there. Be it an old lover that you wished were part of your life at a random Tuesday night music becomes that one friend who wouldn't judge but rather let you feel and talk, letting you miss them, reminisce the times with their presence in their life in peace.
Such a miracle it comes as making you feel things you weren't aware of, the fact that you associate a person, a feeling, a bunch of memories to a compilation of rhythm and lyrics which aren't your own but somehow feels like home. Isn't that what home is something that brings you peace and calm makes you feel belonged not forces you to fit in. A place where you find tranquil in its most pious form. it definitely is not a mere abode of cement and plaster, it is a feeling. which can be a place, person or even music.
that is what music is to me, it is home in between the chaos, safeguarded and secure where no place exist for insecurities or misunderstandings, just a safe haven that understands me when everyone I know fails to. IT REALLY IS SUBTLE THERAPY for me.