music

My brain was hazy, and I was flipping through books and websites with glassy-eyed glare of a dead fish.

And then, a familiar tune flowed into my ears.

I don't know how to describe the experience. Catharsis doesn't begin to capture the purifying mystique of the moment.

At the single moment, all my thoughts were focused into a single whole, moments of my life flashed in front of my eyes, and I was reminded again of the reason why I am going through this. I was reminded of the promise I made to myself so long ago, with so much dream and determination.

The night is getting darker, and I should fall asleep soon, to prepare for tomorrow. Yet I will not forget this moment, of the things I was reminded of.

The effect of music is breathtaking. What part of this chemical system allows such miraculous phenomenon to manifest in this universe? The trembling strand of information propagating throughout the brainstem is one thing, the effect it has on the directionality of the human will is another.

I do not believe in any mysterious forces or divine substances behind this marvelous feat of human origin. Yet experiences like this leads me to believe that things that would be described as mysterious and divine might one day be built by the human hands.