Goodbye Friend Hello Music

05.18.04

A closing grey day, a day that ended by seeing and saying goodbye to a newly met friend for the last time. How sad is it to have something good come to an end? Ideally we would want to work, experience, entertain, and live our entire life with great people that we get along with. We want it all, but all roads do not cross one point and you can only hope that the points you do pass through will contain interesting people who can understand you, appreciate you, and accept you. Being a consultant on the road, you create a temporary family while being away from home. You build a replaced local family unit with people you can trust, people that you can have fun with, people that you can learn from, and most importantly, people that you can relate to. I lost sight of one of the greatest things in my life that I once loved so dearly, music. My newly departed friend brought that back into my life and introduced me to far more diverse music than I would ever try to dare branch out to. I must thank him for bringing back that spark which gave me so much thrill and peace once in my life. It was something that would always put a smile on my face, something that gave me an unconditional high. As a form of entertainment, I love listening to music more than anything, but with the long working habits and as years go by, I have unconsciously devoid my ears of anything pretty and placed a slow death to my ability of choosing good music and blanded all my taste buds of anything swank and interesting. I embarrassedly funneled myself into the popular pop music that was endlessly played on the radio, and unfortunately, forgotten to channeled my ears elsewhere, especially when there are far more goodness out there with far more variety than my current ignorance could ever have known. Basically I listened to what was there and sought for nothing else but what was placed in front of me by the media over the frequency waves. He introduced me to great things and expanded the music world and knowledge for me. I totally got back into music and now can't go one day without listening to something, even if it isn't swank, it's music that my heart swells to with each beat and my soul sways with the rhythm. I bought myself a five hundred dollar i-Pod just so I can have continuous goodness in my ears at any instant desire. The smile is there and I completely drown myself in my tunes, his tunes, but my tunes now, and to that, I tip my hat to him and hope we'll jam to music one day, once again.