Music and its effect on me (and probably you too)
I've always been a huge fan of music, especially in my high school years onward. I always found music to be an escape from what's going on around me, or at times a way to help cope with what I'm going through. What I didn't realize until much later in life however is that the music I was listening to may have actually been affecting how I was dealing with situations around me. Back when I was a wee rebellious lad (we're talking early 2000s here), I was listening to everything from Pink Floyd to Disturbed, and I was leaning more towards the heavier, angrier music. By the end of my high school years, I was listening to a lot of Lamb of God, Disturbed, Godsmack, and similar bands. Take this song for example, how does it make you feel? I'll tell you how this makes me feel - it makes me feel like I want to punch someone in the face, throw things around my room, BREAK things. It's a very clear cut example of what a song could be portraying, but as a kid I'm li...