Rainy mood

Does anyone else feel that the weather has a direct influence on your mood? I mean, I was expecting to go outside to play some soccer today, or at least go for a run. Now it's raining out and I don't feel like doing anything, let alone get up to do any sort of physical activity. I've been sitting at this stupid computer for the last few hours, feeling so lethargic and just all-around lazy that I felt compelled to at least do something useful and make a blog post. So here it is, you're welcome. Especially if you live in Syracuse too and you've been waiting for something awesome to come out of this gloomy day.

I don't know, I just feel better when it's sunny out. Probably something to do with human nature and the way our skin reacts to sunlight, but I don't want to go all science-y on you and go there. Plain and simple, sunlight=good, rain=bad. Unless you're a plant. But I'm not, so I don't like these rainy days xD. Now, if there were thunder and lightning outside, that'd be a different story.

I love watching the flashes of lightning illuminate the towering storm clouds, counting the time lapse between the lightning and thunder, and then evaluating how loud the boom was (the ones that rumble around as if the sky were clearing its throat don't count). But what was it, the storm is one mile away for every 5 seconds that you can count? At least it gives you something exciting to do. When it's just raining, all you can do is watch the stream of water go by at the end of your driveway and imagine what it would be like if you were an ant and were caught in a flooding river like that. Or is that just me?

Music Memories

Music and memories... I still find it amazing how closely those two are entwined. It's like by hearing a song, you are immediately transported back to a certain event or memory in your life. You remember the exact emotions you felt during that time, and it's like the music has left an imprint on your life. It evokes a certain feeling every time you listen to it, something personal that is connected to the past.

I listen to "Gotta Get Thru This" by Daniel Bedingfield and automatically remember the summer of 2009, sitting in a crowded plane on the way to an awesome vacation in Taiwan. I had a headache, I was drinking ginger ale, and I vividly remember listening to the song. Or it's "Stronger" by Kayne West- whenever I hear the song played anywhere, I can't help but think of the summer of 2010, and the countless times it was played on my i-pod while at Gold's Gym, working out and fired up about the World Cup matches going on.

Songs like these will never be forgotten. And some songs you just associate with certain memories or feelings or time periods in your life. And that's why I love sharing music. A song can be personal enough to mean something really deep to you and yet sound completely different to each person. Just like people have different memories of the same event. So take a look back and find the songs that have really made up your life and are holding memories for you. Cry, laugh, hate, and love them as you listen to them again and pinpoint that one moment in your life. And even if you don't, at least you'll have the perfect soundtrack for when they make a movie production out of your life story.