From heaven to hell... The Amish challenge

Everything I do in my life, big or small, is accompanied by a song. It's like the soundtrack of your life; you can remember a moment or a person when you hear certain songs. So, as you can imagine, music is an important part of me and it is always present in everything I do. That is why I decided to give up to music; specifically my iPod’s music (because it is the gadget I use the most). Before I started with the challenge, I thought that it was going to be pretty hard for me to do it; and actually, it was harder than I thought.  

The hardest day was Monday; because, well… it was Monday! And you just want to go through that day as quickly as possible. I had the impression that doing things without music makes you feel that everything happens very slowly, and the world is a really quiet place. A friend told me that there are some things that shouldn’t be fast and I agree with him, but I meant to tell that music can make trivial things turn into memorable ones (i. e. Mondays).  

Something good out of all this was that I could listen to music I hadn’t heard in a long time. In my lab, we were working while we listened to Jose Jose and it was hilarious; because my friends and I were singing along "El triste" and we had a great time acting while we sang (imagine the dumbest but saddest scene in the whole world, oh I’m kidding, it was just dumb!).  

In my perspective, listening to music could help you to get rid of the stress; it can be the perfect excuse to start a conversation, or even put words to your thoughts. The negative thing about listening to music could be that if you listen to it with your headphones, and you are in a face-to-face situation; it is going to be rude not to talk with the person in front of you. To me, this Nietzsche’s quote summarizes my notion about music: “Without music, life would be a mistake” (I hope not to sound very radical).