As I sit and write this, I’m listening to a playlist created over 3 years ago. My emotions are going wild. (Feel free to listen to the playlist here while you read or even better, play one of your playlists from a long time ago. It will really get you in the emotion I was in while writing this post.)
Many people listen to music constantly. As they make breakfast, when they go out on a run, to help them concentrate at work, ambiance for eating dinner, soothing music for going to bed. A constant flow of music.
I’ve never been this way. I go through periods of listening to a lot of music, periods where I prefer to just sit in my own thoughts and sometimes when I prefer to listen to podcasts, sermons, or books on audio.
It provides a surreal feeling when I get back into the music each time. I wrote a blog post a while back about smells and how often smells will take you back to a time before. How sometimes when I smell something I can remember specific visuals from when I was smelling it before.
Music is something different. For one, I think it’s more well known the effects music has on emotions. People have been using music to manipulate emotions in movies since their inception in the late 19th century and it was used for centuries before that.
However, music seems to produce a different kind of emotion and recollection. Whereas smells bring specific moments, music seems to bring a vague flood of memories. Where your mind can’t quite pick a time that it takes you back to. You still get specific pictures but you see all of them at once.
This evening, hearing the playlist paired with the day I had really made me miss the times in my life that truly felt like “simpler times.”
Today really helped wake me back up to my purpose on this earth. Focusing on the eternal things of life is so important. I’ve tried hard to stay focused on this but I continually get distracted by all the things happening in my life.
I pray for God to help me focus on Him and Him alone. There are so many things in this life that try and get in the way but truly all of them lead to emptiness and a lack of fulfillment. I want to be used by God and I can’t wait to see where he’ll take me if I’m fully open to where he wants to take me.
God is good. He doesn’t forget about us.
It’s time for me to stop forgetting about Him.