I'm on the outside, and I'm looking in
Music is quite possibly my favorite thing in this world. All styles of music, old, new, loud, soft, there are few things I would rather do than listen to a good musical selection. Music has a way of inspiring me, and a good song speaks to my soul better than most anything else I can think of. I'm not quite sure what exactly that means, having something "speak to your soul", but if anything does it, it'd be music.
I'm sure that's kind of a scary thought, to place something so seemingly pointless as music on such a pedestal. I know all about the different Islamic arguments, is music haraam, is it halaal, certain instruments, different scholars, all that jazz. I'm not endorsing it as halaal or haraam, but I will say that if it is haraam I'll just be paying for this sin on the Day of Judgement.
A lot of people need absolute silence in order to get any studying/work done, but I personally really can't do most of my work without music (unless its reading, in which case I put on music without words). If you look carefully you'll see that I make a lot of musical allusions in my posts, and that I take a lot of quotes and throw them in. The reason I do this is because music is one of the only ways I feel like I can relate to the rest of society. Having a similar music taste, or liking the same band is a great, flattering gesture in my mind, to say that even though we have never seen each other, we feel like we can both relate to the same notions. Its a notion I liken to the saying "You're not alone."
My whole life I've felt like the outsider, as a lot of people do I'm sure. Some of that might be unfounded, but some of that can be attributed to the fact that everyone thinks differently, and has a different mindset. Nonetheless, that's a feeling I thought would die with high school, where it was never really something I payed too much heed to, instead always having video games to fall back on. Music does a good job of helping me find Somewhere I Belong. (that's the title of a Linkin Park song for the unawares).
Some day maybe I'll get over the stigma, but it's not something that I'm entirely uncomfortable with, being the outsider, the lone wolf. It's something I take pride in some times, the ability to say I'd rather sit here and write/read as opposed to going to KFC and "studying" at the library with my roommate and company.
I'm sure that's kind of a scary thought, to place something so seemingly pointless as music on such a pedestal. I know all about the different Islamic arguments, is music haraam, is it halaal, certain instruments, different scholars, all that jazz. I'm not endorsing it as halaal or haraam, but I will say that if it is haraam I'll just be paying for this sin on the Day of Judgement.
A lot of people need absolute silence in order to get any studying/work done, but I personally really can't do most of my work without music (unless its reading, in which case I put on music without words). If you look carefully you'll see that I make a lot of musical allusions in my posts, and that I take a lot of quotes and throw them in. The reason I do this is because music is one of the only ways I feel like I can relate to the rest of society. Having a similar music taste, or liking the same band is a great, flattering gesture in my mind, to say that even though we have never seen each other, we feel like we can both relate to the same notions. Its a notion I liken to the saying "You're not alone."
My whole life I've felt like the outsider, as a lot of people do I'm sure. Some of that might be unfounded, but some of that can be attributed to the fact that everyone thinks differently, and has a different mindset. Nonetheless, that's a feeling I thought would die with high school, where it was never really something I payed too much heed to, instead always having video games to fall back on. Music does a good job of helping me find Somewhere I Belong. (that's the title of a Linkin Park song for the unawares).
Some day maybe I'll get over the stigma, but it's not something that I'm entirely uncomfortable with, being the outsider, the lone wolf. It's something I take pride in some times, the ability to say I'd rather sit here and write/read as opposed to going to KFC and "studying" at the library with my roommate and company.
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