Influenced.

throughout your life, people will naturally be shaped and moulded to fit exactly into, or rebel against, everything around them. there are those who enjoy being average and normal, and you do find those who want nothing to do with those around them, who either dream of something more or cannot accept themselves to be of the same ilk as those that surround them. whatever your case may be, i have came to the conclusion that there is one defining factor in everyones life that will have,without fail, encouraged the development of a person's character into who they are now. this factor can be attributed to how a person feels/wants to feel at any given moment, in that this factor can influence a person to such an extent. this factor, is music. music can unite everyone together, should the song and the beat symbolise something everyone can relate too. but its the music that people can relate to on a personal level that attracts me most. music where every word in every lyric means something to you, and talks about something you have yourself experieced or are experiencing. this music is the solitary kind that a person listens to when in a time of need, when someone doesnt always want to be cheered up but to live through the motions of a time of difficulty, where perhaps you feel things will not change reguardless of how you feel, and as a result talk yourslef into beliving you can only benefit from hurting yourself more by connecting to the music. there is,ofcourse, the music where the only connection made is positive, where the lyrics inspire you and give you that something else to drive towards anything and everything else.the kind of music that give you enough courage to try something youve always wanted to try, to do something youve always wanted to do, irreguardless of anything that happens as a result of these actions because in that moment, everything seems worth it.
but the music that unintentially captures me most, is the kind that upon hearing it, instantly throws your mind back to another location, time or person. the kind that makes you smile as you look back in nostalgia because you realise everything that the song now represents to you now, and for the most part perhaps always will, is everything that you would have wanted it too during that period in your life. and even if you diddnt ask it too, it now helps to embriod that time as something you can never hope to forget. it hurts when it makes you miss that time.
music can mean everything to some, and nothing to others. all i can say, is that i genuenly belive myself to have evolved and became the person i am now because of the music i have always had in my life, reguardless of the way my taste in music has changed, it has only done so because i allowed it too. as i move into different chapters of my life it is important to have something you can have with you as something of a comfort and can return to in times of hardship and change. music means everything to me, and it always will.