It doesn't take a stretch of imagination to realize music's impact on our lives.
no doubt it has the power to orchestrate our emotional tone. Music can trigger just about .
any emotion - it can bring joy to our hearts or sadness in anticipation of pain, loss, or .
separation. Music sends our boys to war and announces their return in parades and .
funerals. It brings tears to our eyes even before the couple acknowledges "I do", and it .
inspires us to lead the charge when our team is behind in the last quarter. It enables us to .
celebrate life, to sing and to dance, and it centers us peacefully in prayer or meditation. .
But could you ever anticipate that music can be a major, vital part of one's life such as .
an addiction?.
In order to analyze something, we first need to understand what it is we are discussing. .
The first question seems to be this: What is music? The question, fortunately, is not .
difficult to answer. Music is the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a .
continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, .
and timbre. Then there is addiction. Addiction can be defined as being abnormally .
dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming. Let's take a .
look at a few of people I know personally who appear to find themselves, "addicted to .
music". .
First there's Sally who claims her problem started in late June of 1995. Before then .
she"d been "into" music. But she really wasn't a fan, she would buy albums she liked .
and the occasional single. Then it happened. "It" was an accidental discovery of Janet .
Jackson's debut album just sitting in our local Warehouse Records.
She quite fancied the album she had purchased, listened to it, then fell in love with it. .
I mean really, truly loved it. Other records had entertained or fascinated her before, but .
never in quite the way this one did. She said "It managed to get inside of me and not let .