Turning up the Volume Again

When did we allow the music too fade? Recently I had a moment, that my adult conformist brain shuddered at. . . I was driving home from work, and I turned the volume up really loud in my car AND then I started to sing along with a good old song really loudly.  Loud enough to strain my voice. . . and YES, my windows were down....and NO, I cant sing. . . but let me tell you....IT FELT GOOD.

But it made me wonder . . . when did we turn down the volume? when did we let the music fade? when did i become a typical cliche of an ""old person"? and wouldn't life be more colourful and fun if we turned the volume back up again?

I don't remember myself as a small child in this aspect . . . but some of my nephews and a ton of youtube videos will show ...small children have no inhibitions when their favorite song comes on. I remember my one nephew would literally jump off the med and bounce of the walls when his favorite song came on. They dance their hearts out enjoying the moment and the music full regardless of whether they can dance or not.

I do remember my teen years. . . Music was almost as constant as oxygen. It was also being played, and always on.  . . even when studying for exams, music was blaring. obviously older people would question whether we could study with that noise on . . . but we could and we did. I was a groupie, always at local gigs and around band practices, music was life back then. I was first on the dancefloor [with another friend of mine].... now i'm not a great dancer but it didnt matter. . . Sometimes it was only us 2 on the dance floor...but it didnt matter, we lost ourselves in the enjoyment of the moment and the music.

And now? when did it fade?  I still enjoy music, I do . . . usually as background noise when i'm driving or when i'm drawing/painting etc or cleaning house. . . but i have stopped enjoying it, i have stopped dancing my heart out or belting out the lyrics at the top of my voice.

Now i know, sadly, we dont live in a musical . . . though my family and i did have a rare moment on Christmas morning when opening presents that somehow ended up with all of us loudly and happily, and somewhat spontaneously singing, "when a moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie....that's amorer" . . . but we don't live in a musical....but sadly in my own life, and i would hazard a guess in a lot of people's lives.... we have turned down the volume.

imagine how much less gym we'd need if we randomly had bursts of song and dance in our homes . . . imagine how much better our souls would feel if we started to create moments that bring song, dance and enjoyment back into our lives again? i think its time to turn up the volume again, not because i have to but because its FUN!