When you have some quiet time, it is incredible how your mind can start to jump from topic to topic and from memory to memory.
Yesterday, as I took a 5-minute break, waiting for dinner to prepare, I watched our little fur baby, Nemi, a Japanese Spitz, relaxing and enjoying herself on our micro-sized lawn.
While watching her, my mind started to wander. Having a freshly brewed cup of coffee in my hands, savoring the aroma, I closed my eyes and was suddenly transported several years back to the day I bought my first music album.
It was an album by Electric Light Orchestra(ELO) called Discovery.
It is unnecessary to say the album has been my favorite of all the albums I have ever bought.
With the image of buying the album fresh in mind, more memories from that summer popped up. The sounds, the smells, the feeling of summer, and fond memories came rushing in.
I bought two other albums simultaneously: "Spirits Having Flown" by BeeGees and "Totally Hot" by Olivia Newton-John.
I had a crush on Olivia Newton-John at that time. I saw her for the first time in the movie Grease, and my crush on her lasted for a few years.
BeeGees and Olivia Newton-John were just a one-off purchase. I bought their albums because they were trending due to the movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
I bought the Discovery album because I loved ELO's music, and I still do. My brother had several albums, and I listened to them daily.
Today, I have most of their albums on both vinyl and CDs. Spotify helps a lot, too.
Whenever I put on a record by ELO, I return to that summer when I bought Discovery. Their music also triggers memories of reading Stephen King's books.
I usually read one or two books by Stephen King every summer. His books are just excellent. I do not think there is currently a better storyteller than him.
He is in a league of his own. The way he writes draws me into the universe of his books in a way that no other author can.
Music can do many things, and one of them is to trigger a chain of good and bad memories. And it shows us that the past is far from «dead.»
Memories are a living entity, existing in another time and dimension from which we can draw positive energy whenever we need it.
Remember, memories are beautiful. Protect them and cherish them.