Music soundtrack of our lives

Music, is the soundtrack of our lives 

So last night I watched Clive Davis: The soundtrack of our lives 

On Netflix and it made me go back in time with every artist and song he found.

I was shocked with all the greatest artists that he signed on to his record labels, greats like, Janice Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith, Barry Manilow. Earth, Wind and Fire, Dionne Warwick, Carly Simon, Alicia Keys, Barbara Streisand, Luther Vandross, and of course the unforgettable Whitney Houston. 

I fell back in time listening to all of my favorite artists and realized that yes, music is the soundtrack of our lives. There are songs that the second you hear them will take you back to your first love, your first kiss, your first heartbreak. Songs that you can tell where you were the first time you hear them, what you were doing and who you were doing them with.

I can hear a Barry Manilow song and remember as if it was yesterday, my high-school sweetheart. Listening to Luther Vandross in the backyard was my first kiss with him.

I remember crying to Barbara Streisand when we broke up.

The first time I heard the Whitney Houston album I was in my car waiting for my mom to come out of a doctor's appointment and couldn't believe my ears at her amazing voice. 

Years later when she made the movie The Bodyguard, the song I will always love you made me think of the same feelings with that old high-school sweetheart even though we had been apart for 25 years. 

Yes, music is the soundtrack of our lives, the good and the bad. At the end of my horrific marriage music was the only thing that got me through it. I would listen to songs like I will survive and Christina Agrilari's Walking on eggshells, songs like this gave me the courage to leave. I played these songs over and over and over until they built me up, until I had the courage that I needed. This is what music can do for you, it can change your mood, it can give you courage, it can give you hope. 

I remember when my mom died and I didn't want to go on, I was in a horrible place. I gave over my life to God and one song that I had as my ringer, my alarm and listened to it on repeat was I understand by Smokie Norville.

It's God telling you to hold on, he is going to change things, even when you feel like your life is a mess and you can't go on, he says I am God and I understand.

That song alone got me through the depression, gave me something to hold on too.

I have started to talk to others about these two things in my workshops, writing and music. These two things have such incredible healing powers. To be able to write your feelings, to release them is freeing and to listen to music that can change your attitude is unbelievable.

So today my friends remember that music can change your life, it is woven into our lives. Can you even imagine a world without music? No, I know I couldn't or wouldn't want to. I love the fact that no matter what mood I may be in, I can find music to fit that mood, to lift me up, to comfort me, to give me strength. To heal a broken heart, when you fall in love, when you feel like you can't go on, there is a song for all of that because it is true, music is the soundtrack of our lives.

Happy listening! 

"Be the change you want to see"

@Treadmilltreats