Whatever has the ability to enter into our being and affect our lives, whether positively or negatively is something we need to be meticulous about because our lives depend on it.
Most people don't know that apart from the physical food we consume, what we hear, what we see, and what we think is also food, the only difference is the physical food we consume nourishes the body while the other foods nourish the soul.
These two kinds of food are very important to man, and any form of malnutrition can result in a serious problem subsequently.
Music happens to be among those foods that feed the soul. By now, I believe we are aware that music doesn't land anywhere else except on our soul, one of the crucial parts of a man.
As it lands there, it feeds it and allows the brain to absorb it and then transfer it to our personalities.
This is why what we listen to often has the ability to manifest in our characters as time goes on. They somehow have the ability to change us to the message they carry.
“Words are powerful,” I am sure you are not hearing this for the first time and music is even more powerful because they are words, well garnished, well spiced with melodies that can break any barrier in our heart that may prevent them from accessing our souls.
I don't know whether you've ever wondered why anything else would be boring sometimes but once you play a song, everything else will change, that is to tell you how powerful music is, even the soul doesn't have enough mechanisms to resist it.
There is nothing that I am most careful about like music. It is one of the fastest means to communicate with our innermost being. The process is almost faster than the speed of light.
What you have been battling to accept for long, if you encounter the right song, you won't just know how you compromise within a split of seconds.
Knowing that fact about music, I select what I listen to based on what I envision my life to be. Most of the songs in my phone right now are gospel songs, I also have a few secular songs but they are more of songs of motivation.
These songs align with what I am pursuing in life and keep me on track. I won't lie, sometimes, I come across songs out of the ones I have selected for myself and I get tempted to patronize them but I have already proposed in my heart what I wanted, so I say “no,” to myself.
That is not all, I don't listen to random artists, people don't just sing, they give out their essence, songs are not just words, they are fragments of people's thoughts and ideologies, if you accept them you are uniting with that individual.
With time, you will realize that a part of the person is manifesting in your life. To be frank, I am scared about many things in life, and one of them is music. Life is not as casual as most people see it.
What you hear, what you see is food to the soul. It will be so unfortunate if you become careless feeding yourself with just every thrash out there. In the end, your life would become exactly like those thrash because what you eat is what will manifest in your life.