Music to my eyes

 Do you know that moment when Kasoor starts playing and that one memory comes back to you? The butterflies in your stomach and the blush on your cheeks come back and so does the night by the fountain. 

You can feel the moment materializing before your eyes like a movie on a screen, hear the sound of the crickets and the gentle splashes of the fountain mingling with the song playing right now. You feel the wind ruffling past your body and your scarf gently swaying in the cold night. That song and all your memories of that night by the fountain come back.

Have you ever felt that sudden heartache when 'the night we met' plays and all you can think of is that one person who makes you go back to that night every day? 

That weird but sweet nostalgic feeling makes you smile uncontrollably because that night at the restaurant, with your colleagues and him, had turned out to be the best celebratory dinner. And all you can wish is for him to "take me back to the night we met".

Maybe you feel that sudden bout of energy attacking your muscles when "C'est la vie" plays. All you can think about is that night in your bedroom with lights and speakers and pillows; and your friends. 

When you can think of nothing else, just the lights and the people and the music, your legs and hands moved as if they had their own minds. That was the night you had laughed and danced the most in months. That was the night you had let go of every worry and every trouble because C'est la vie!

That's the thing about music, isn't it? It has the magical ability to transform you to a completely different place where only you and your memories exist. Every tune, every lyric winds itself around that one memory at the back of your mind and when you hear it, that tune, that lyric, that memory comes flooding back to you, bringing with it a sweetly weird, oddly-satisfying sense of nostalgia and happiness. 

Every tune, every lyric, when it binds itself to a memory, it becomes yours; it becomes your song and your tune and your jam. It will become your muse and your worst distraction, yet it never fails to bring a smile to your face with that one memory it brings back.

 That's the thing about music after all, isn't it?

-Heer Visaria