Music: Bridging The Distance

Today I was missing home a lot more than usual. I was missing the people, my home, the atmosphere, the infrastructure! My thoughts drifted between memories and the moments yet to come. And I finally understood the meaning of yearning for something. And I yearned, so much that my heart ached to be with the people I loved.

Songs played and phone calls were made. Yet the distance was striking.

I found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
And the reason is you...

Summer songs. And the memories gushed back.

There is this feature of music that is so spectacular - its ability to make you feel exactly the way you felt when the song defined a period in your life. It may be the greatest joy or the deepest sorrow, but for one single moment you float back to that time and you relive that moment in its entire enormity.

Sab gaate hain sab hi madhosh hain
Hum tum kyoon khaamosh hain
Saaz-e-dil chhedo na, chup ho kyoon gaao na
Aao na aao na, aao na aao na..