4/26/2012

i've always been the type of person who wants to share things with others, music that makes me happy, or films, or youtube channels, or some random picture or quote. i never really thought about why i wanted to share these things with other people. it wasn't until recently that i kind of started to understand, and even think about this. do you know that emotion that you get when you listen to the first few notes of some song? those first few notes that that means so much, that song that brings about a nostalgic feeling. something that makes you feel like you could be in a completely different world, or even just causes a small jolt of emotion?  some songs in particular i could listen to a thousand times just because of how the notes are arranged or how different instruments come together.
anyways, regardless of what it is that evokes these emotions, i always feel compeled to share songs and photographs and other things that are special to me with other people. i've come to the conclusion that the reason i feel compelled to do this is because i want others to experience the same emotions that i do when i hear something or see something special to me. the passion i feel about certain things is something that i want to evoke in others.

thinking about this i started to reflect on why things were special to me, why these emotions are triggered when i hear or see something. i realised that there are so many different experiences that i have had throughout my life that have influenced the way i think.  these experiences are the reason why certain things trigger certain feelings within me. realising this also makes me think that other people won't necessarily have the same emotional response when they are exposed to something that triggers an emotion in me, and this is because they have been shaped by completely different experiences.
now for some people this seems obvious, and it should be for me too, of course nobody has had the same experiences, of course nobody is alike. but it is in being able to state this that makes it a concept that is real. the excitement i felt when i first started thinking about this was a little bit ridiculous, but i felt as if a light had switched... i could better understand why i wanted to share thins with people. i want to share things with people that make me feel