i’m having a high fidelity moment. for those music afficionados, you know exactly what i mean. the idea of using music to communicate a feeling, an emotion has always appealed to me. someone somewhere has already felt that same experience so why try to reinvent the wheel with the description when there already is one out there…set to music even, right?
well, i still like to write my own descriptions but every now and then, like today for instance, i feel relieved to know that there is a song that describes exactly what i am feeling right at that moment.
it was in the gym, of all places that this little moment of unadulterated pleasure occurred. i was mid stride on one of those elliptical machines that work your leg muscles to the bone that it happened. a spark. a jolt. it made my heart soar.
in between my bouncing pony tail and the sweat lazily sliding down the side of my face that my anger towards my sometimes insane personality began to fade. its one of those moments that you are unattached, you step outside your skin and realize you are about to do or say something completely insane, but you can do nothing more than just watch as the train wreck unravels. and then its too late.
its soothing to hear it from another person, be it a musician. so it’s not just me. others do stupid things too. i felt energized even. i pushed my body even more and enjoyed every minute of it.
i finished my workout, thanking my newly acquired aquamarine ipod nano because sometimes you forget those songs. sometimes you have listened to them so many times that the words become blurred, lost in a melody. the rediscovery of these songs is rediscovering a musical delectation…
