Music - My Escapism

Music.  I love Music.  I thank God for the creation of it.  The fact that when times are rough, I can drift into it as my source of escapism and for that moment everything just disappears as I glide into the moment of the song.  And depending on which song it is, I simply slip on my earphones, close my eyes and instantly drift into a moment of time my life where I remember smiling.

For example, listening on the song "Too Close" by Next instantly takes me back to a moment with my daughter Tamasha, who was only about 4 years old at the time.  There was just the two of us in the car.  I was driving and of course she was riding. When the song began playing on the radio, she suddenly began singing along with the chorus.  It was the first time that I've ever heard her sing to a song played on the radio, and even more, I was astonished at how she knew the words.  It was a moment of my realization of just how much she was growing into music herself.

Listening to the song "Is She The Reason" by Destiny's Child instantly take me back to a moment during a heavy snow storm.  I was driving home from work at the time and traffic was tremendously backed up. Before I left work, I had borrowed that CD Destiny Fulfilled from a co-worker. And being in that backed up traffic actually allowed me to listen to the entire CD.  Before then, I had never really paid too much attention to Destiny's Child's music, so I really didn't know much about them.  The entire CD actually soothed me while sitting in traffic to the point where I actually realized how that entire CD actually tells a story from the very first song to the very last song, and I was actually captivated about it.  Especially in the song "Is She The Reason", where I totally became entranced by Michelle Williams' unique vocal style.

Denise Williams' "Free"  takes me back 35 years to when I was in the 6th grade.  I was my first house party.  But not only that, it was also my very first slow drag dance with a girl.  :-)

Teena Marie's "Dear Lover"  takes me back to my high school years, where a high school sweetheart of mine had such a soothing singing voice and used to sing this one to me all the time.

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly's "Reaching Down Inside"  takes me back to when I was 19 years old.  I had just moved out of my parents home and was living in a spot right off of 8th & H Street, NE DC.  I would walk and catch the bus to work every day with Maze's "Can't Stop The Love" Tape LP rockin all day long in my walkman.

Ne Yo's "Miss Independent"  was a song that I used to hear all the time during the era when I had packed up and relocated to an entirely knew location.  And every time I hear the very opening groove of the song, I'm instantly right back there.

Both Train's "Hey Soul Sister"  and BoB's "Nothin On You"  instantly takes to when I first got my Mustang (The Spidey Mobile), and how I would just drive to the scenery of Ida Lee Park, lay my seat back, and just chill with the music playing.

There are hundreds and hundreds of songs that take me to all sorts of places throughout my life that I smile upon, and I could go on and on with this hours and hours and days and days.  But I guess that point that I'm trying to make is that it's really hard to know what kind of state I would be in right now if had not been for God's creation of music.  I have no idea.  I don't drink.  I don't do drugs.  Music is my escapism.  So now, if you would just excuse me for a moment, I think I'll toss on my headphones, lay my head back, and zone into some "Devotion" .