Sunday, December 02, 2007

Everything and Nothing

I love music; I'm always looking for new things to listen to. Green Day is my all time favourite accompanied with Smashing Pumpkins. I grew up with those groups and marked the musical difference –among other things- with my friends when I was a teenager. I never thought about it until now it was my passive way to rebel.

Now, miles away from the people which marked me as unique, in other words awkward, I realise how much I enjoy music not as something that makes me different from others, but that integrates and links me to new cultures and people. It's the starting point of new friendships, conversations and interests. It's the soothing comfort of long nights, the rhythm of work, the pace of tiny steps, the emotion of new discoveries, the words you cannot express, the reassurance to continue, the background of new and old memories, the tears, the fears, the joy, the laughter, everything, nothing…how many things can you express with one song?