#8: Music

 Day 8 of 30 days writing challenge.

Music 

The power of music is true indeed. I've told a bit on day 2 of this challenge how music actually saved me. But what is exactly music do?

A peace of mind

Listening to music can stimulates your brain. It highly depends on what kind of music you listen to. Sometimes you need to calm down, so you'll listen to smooth, silky music. At other times when you're feeling you need a mood booster, you'll go for an energetic music. Whatever it is, it's always there to complete you. At times, you'll listen to music when you're in your doubts, some other times you'll listen to it when you're remembering, either places or people or both. It is a tool, a powerful tool to bring peace, energy, or sorrow. 

What about playing instrument? Off course it's also therapeutical. I read that when you're playing your music, you trained your brain equally. And I've proven it, music indeed kept my sanity. And I'm forever grateful to that. Your brain works in a mysterious way, and music stimulates it. People can have different kinds of experience, but what I've been through, it's like somehow you can be happy just by playing.

Is it a waste of time?

Nothing is really time wasting if you put your heart on it. But anything can be a useless thing to do if you're overusing it or use it for the wrong purpose. Like over and over torturing your thoughts with sad music will obviously bring you down. So music can be a cure, or can make things worse. This only shows how powerful music is.

What kind?

There are so many musical genre, but easy listening music are still the best (to easy enjoying things). 

I remembered the first time ever I fell in love with a musical group is when I saw the Beatles playing 'I want to hold your hand' on MTV Classic. The image of it was so powerful I went crazy about them and bought a full set of their records on cassette tapes. Even more powerful than that, it was their songs that made me love British and Britons and anything British, and dreamed about going there, to Liverpool, just to feel their hometown. And you know what, the dream came true! I went there,  I actually when to their country and even studied there. I went to Liverpool five times, with different people, seeing the exact same city over and over. That is how powerful music is. It can make you dream big. The Beatles was my first music crush. 

The second big crush was Arashi, a Japanese super idol that I'm crazy about. I was an avid Japanese otaku, and been frantic about Japanese stuff since middle school. But I was in love with Arashi just around their 10th year of grouping (around 2008), all thanks to Nino's and Sho's drama: Yamada Taro Monogatari (The Story of Yamada Taro) which using their song as the OST. Arashi was on my mind (and my sister's) eversince. My love for Japan somehow brought me there on 2013, and have been there again and again several times after that. And Arashi was always an obsession. But following their 20th anniversary (yes, they're that long-lasting idol group), they're suddenly saying they're going to be on hiatus. It was a sad moment but also brought unexpected luck. Arashi was never really spread their songs outside Japan, but suddenly they're saying they're going on a world tour. And guess where's the first non-East Asian country they visit? My country! I was like, oh My GOD. They'll be in the same city as me. And suddenly one of my close friend said that he'll be in the pers conference with them, and he asked me to accompany him (since he knew I am crazy about them). At first I was hesitating because I can't took my sis with me, and thought that she'll be furious with me if I went without her. But finally I decided I will go with my friend and finally got to see them in person! I rarely did selfish things, and maybe this is one of them, but I don't regret it. Spent my life making other people happy, this is one of the rare times where I am truly really happy. 

Although not seeing them singing, but it was like a once in a blue moon event!!! I still can't believe it really happened. Was like just two metres away from my idol, but I can't do my fangirling thing since I'm with the press. Lol. That's okay, anything goes! And it felt like dream, and still felt like dream although almost a year went by. Off course my sis was angry, she called me a traitor. But if the position was switched, if she's the one that can suddenly met her idol, I would be happy for her. But she's not me and I'm not her. She was mad for quite a long time, but after that she recovered. But too bad I can't enjoy Arashi with her again (we used to do our fangirling together, no wonder she was mad at me) because it became too awkward. I wish someday we'll look at this with a different perspective, and maybe she'll become a more mature person, and maybe accept the fact that some things cannot be logically explained (if it's meant to be, it'll be). 

I have more stories like that, but the day will soon be over. I think I'll call it a day now :). See you tomorrow for more happy thoughts ❤️.