I have been able to completely lose myself in music as long as I can remember. Like most people I am able to relive many of life’s moments through specific tunes that seem to transport me to different times and places.
Music has been a lifeline through some of my worst moments and the soundtrack for my best. A melody that brings to mind a face or an unconscious grin as you recall an event, a taste or intoxicating perfume you had long forgotten.
Music has even been able to cut through the fog of dementia and transport seemingly lost souls to happier places that all of the science and physicians can not.
I know that they say laughter is the best medicine but I may suggest that if added with equal parts of kindness and music, there could be no stronger remedy for all that ails the soul.
Perhaps I am just getting soft and gooey in my advanced age but last night I found myself with a tear running down my face as I watched the U2 Live in Paris concert. It was as a packed stadium of complete strangers locked arms and swayed together while they sang the lyrics of their anthem “One Love” back to the band.
The emotions that welled up inside of me were asking the question, why can it not just be that easy in a world on fire, to simply embrace one and other and sway to the music. We all can hear it. Let’s try to feel it.
Even just for a day?