Keep it Alive.mp3

No one would deny if I say that listening to certain songs will take us back to the past and make us re-live those memories. We all grow up listening to hundreds of songs. When I was scrolling through the songs list in my iPod the other day, there were so many songs that I don’t listen to regularly but nevertheless they somehow managed to stay there. After playing them, I realized why I couldn’t delete them. Those songs, each one of them remain as a distinct landmark in my life and they have the capacity to take me back to those days that they represent.

There were songs that remind me of my childhood and the little house that we used to live in. Songs like “Mile sur mera tumhara”, Rahman’s “Vandemataram”, MJ’s “Dangerous”, Celine Dion’s “My heart will go on” and many more. Not that I don’t like them anymore but I just don’t listen to them. May be I just grew up from that phase of my life. The point I’m trying to make is… what those songs have are not just Music, Vocals and Lyrics. They have the events from my life (an entire period in some cases) tangled somewhere between those lines and if by chance I play them now, I get transported to a different world. I’m pretty sure most of you have songs like these in your iPod. Just scroll through the list.

Taking this a little further, there will be songs in every phase of our lives. The type of the Music may differ because the range of music is as diversified as the human life itself. So the type of music different people grow up listening might differ but not the way it can record events from our lives. There will be songs that remind you of the DJ nights in college functions, the crazy dances in Hostel nights, songs you sang as a kid in the Church, songs that remind you of your parents and the time you spent with them, a vacation or  a holiday season(“Jingle Bells” for example), songs that make you Happy, songs that make you feel low, songs that help you fight back when you are low, songs that remind you of your long lost friends, how you moved on after a break up, the break up phase, the good times in the relationship, for that matter there will be songs that will even remind you of the first crush you had as a kid J (Am I becoming a little too romantic?? Cant help it…that’s the relation Music has with romance and I have with Music)

To understand this better, go through the entire song list in your music player and then see what is present in your current playlist. Note the first thing that comes to your mind after listening to a song. You’ll notice that each and every song has a reason to remain in your list. Each song is a portal that has the capacity to take you to a phase of your life that it has captured and stored. That is the reason I just cannot delete certain songs. Even if they remind me of something bad, I cannot delete them because they represent a part of my life and I cannot risk forgetting them. It’s often better to learn and deal with things than to try and forget it…just like in real life. I’m happy that at least events from my life are recorded in my own way (the same song can mean different to different people). It feels good to know that at least the past have been eventful and is kept alive in .mp3 format J

P.S. Now that we know this, we can choose the songs that we one day wish to listen, to remember the present… So choose properly.

Now check your playlist and listen to the songs that you didn’t even knew existed in your list and then write to us what they reminded you of.