Music

Music is powerful.

I didn't imagine that I would cry at all during Micheal Jackson's memorial service. I mean, I don't know MJ personally, so why should I get choked up, right? My connection is simply through the music.

The music connection/appreciation was enough because several tears slid down my face during the service, three times:

Once during Al Sharpton's speech
Another time when Paris was speaking
And the last during the closing prayer.

I'm trying to rationalize it away
like
maybe I'm sad about something else
and
the memorial service was just the straw...

I'm not 100% certain that, that is the case though.

Music can remind you significant moments in your life:
times you were deliriously happy or depressed
and times you were in or out of a relationship
I even wrote a short story that started with the lyrics of a Jill Scott song.

Music is powerful.