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Music is the window to your soul

I learned something this weekend. I learned how personal my favorite music is to me. It's something that probably only musicians or avid music lovers would understand.

To me, knowing what kind of music someone listens to tells you a lot about them and their personality. It's kind of hard to explain, but I really believe it's true. Music styles and lyrics connect to a person's soul and help them express what's going on inside of them. So different styles of music drawl in different types of people. For example, if someone only listens to music from artists who are on the radio, you know that they probably aren't very passionate about music. If someone only listens to emo music, chances are they struggle with depression.

So for me, my ipod tells other people what kind of person I am... what kind of life I lead. It's like wearing my heart on my sleeve. If someone insults my taste in music, I honestly take it personally. It feels like an attack on my character.

This weekend I met some cool new people... and after a discussion about a band that is no longer in existance, I decided to rip out my ipod and play these people a few songs that they couldn't otherwise hear since the albums are no longer available. One of the guys started looking through the songs on my ipod. Now if this person didn't love music, it wouldn't have mattered much to me because they probably don't even know half the artists on there, and they don't understand how much music means to me. However, this person was a musician... someone who is equally as passionate about music as I am. Here was this perfect stranger looking through my ipod, and I felt like he was peering straight into my naked heart and soul. And he started making comments like "you have some really interesting stuff on here..." and started playing various music he found intriguing. So I knew he was making his own opinions about me based solely on my music selection. It made me feel really vulnerable to know that he could probably tell so much about me just from my ipod, but I knew next to nothing about him.

I know it's really hard to explain. And maybe you don't get it. Maybe I'm crazy. But all I know is it left me feeling exposed and like some guy I don't know well figured things out about me that he otherwise wouldn't have known that night. Good thing he seemed cool, or else I would probably be really unsettled by it.

Does anyone get what I'm saying?

Life Changers

Did you ever meet someone and just in the few minutes you've talked to them you think, "This person has the potential to completely change my life." You're not even sure how or why or in what capacity... just that there is a connection there and you know that there is a possibility that in a few months, you're going to wonder how you ever lived without knowing that person.

When I think back to all of my closest friends, at some point in my life, they were all strangers to me. Who would have known a few years ago that a girl named Bonnie would happen to be at the same show I was at, know the same people I knew, and soon become one of the closest friends I've ever had? Who knew that a few years before that, a girl named Hannah, who was a friend of a friend, would show up at my doorstep to pick me up for Purple Door (as a favor to our mutual friend), and she would later become my best friend?

This past weekend, I met this guy who is one of the coolest and most fun people I've met in quite a while. We probably only spent a total of about a half an hour together, but sometimes that's all you need. Two days later, he finds me on myspace and sends me a message.

My only fear is that I'm pretty sure someone else read my response to him (I'm about 99.9% sure of this) and he'll never get it. But I hope he does, because I seriously think he has the potential to become a really good friend.

So if you don't mind, just say a little prayer that God would bless our friendship because I don't want to miss the opportunity to have a friend like him in my life.

I feel like I have a lot to say, but I dont have the time or motivation to write about it...

Some topics that I'd like to write about:
- Nashville (subtopic: Nashville drivers)
- The direction that Christian music is taking
- How I can't stand drunk people
- What I call "American Christianity"
- Friendship... and how it's become extremely selfish
- Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- My hopes, dreams, and desires

I don't know if any of you care about any of these topics. But if per chance you do, let me know and let me know which you'd like to hear about.

But for now, time for bed.