A Rejuvenating Force - Music Personified!!!

In the midst of a deafening silence, I hear this song – “There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando…!!!” – One of my all time favorite pieces of music, kindles my long last forgotten memories of my sweet little cousin, who would swing his head back and forth to this rhythmic song, surrendering to his harsh, screeching hue…Being persistent with this, I further go revisit all my disguised moments of ecstasy, anguish, accomplishment, exasperation, sustenance, recuperation predominated by music…

Think of this, times when an exhilarating music brought tears to ur eyes rolling down ur cheeks, an excruciating gnawing music sending shivers down ur spines, a devotional song wringing out the spell of renunciation and reunion with the inner soul, a rhythmic tune to which ur mind and heart starts dancing inadvertently, a romantic tune that left u mesmerized…finally, an ode of joy and sorrow that upheld u during the moments of despair…

Music has been playing such a pivotal role in my life that I dare not stop myself from delving deep into this unfathomable, abstract feeling…Well, Is music synonymous to a feeling, do we stigmatize a feeling as being an abstract entity? Lot of questions, answers to which are impenetrably mundane, titillate your inner self to figure out answers…

Why does music elicit feelings, it begets physiological changes, proven by scientific experiments. I am not attempting to be a neuroscientist; this is just what I think…
Brain is composed of different regions, somewhat analogous to life, I keep reiterating the philosophy of life – Life is compartmentalized, each phase of life gets activated once and you get to enjoy that aspect of life only during then…I tend to get digressed very easily nowadays:D, well coming back to the brain and its intricacies, each neuron remains in a state of limbo, unless an external stimuli instigates it… This again reminds me of “War of the Worlds” (besides, the fact that I love to hate that movie) wherein an external signal ignites the buried dormant vehicles. When the brain receives signals of certain frequency, the region of brain that is capable of perceiving that wavelength processes it and subsequently the neuron is activated. The patterns of neuron activation monopolizes the feelings, each of this pattern represents one unique feeling. Does this establish the relationship between the music and subtle nuances of mood? Well, the entire processing is not this simple, there is more to it. How does the brain treat the music, how precisely does one describe the processing of music tones in the brain – still an intriguing biological mystery?

How do I relate to music – it’s an indispensable element of my life, everything seems to be so inconsistent and ephemeral to me – ‘This too shall pass…’ a 4 worded-phrase circumscribes the integrity of a multidimensional endurance. Pandemonium engulfing the reality of existence transcends any feeling but for a feeling of oneness with music – a feeling of an eternal consanguinity – something that I fear not of losing!!!