Episode 3 Time Travel with Music
- Just as a certain perfume makes me think of someone while walking down the street, a certain music makes me instantly transport me to a certain time period.
- For example, when I hear Urban Zakapa songs that I used to listen to a lot in my early 20s, I immediately think of my college days, so...
- When I listen to the La La Land OST that was played at the wedding, I remember walking down the aisle.
Music helps me travel through time.
Just as a certain perfume makes me think of someone while walking down the street, a certain music makes me instantly transport me to a certain time period.
For example, when I hear Urban Zakapa songs that I used to listen to a lot in my early 20s, I immediately think of my college days, so I contact friends I used to listen to music and sing with and happily share stories from those days.
When I listen to the La La Land OST that was played at the wedding, I remember walking down the aisle.
When I listen to Christina Perri’s Merry Christmas Darling album, I am reminded of the cold winter days when I bought my first car and went for a drive along the Han River with my husband, listening to music.
If there was no music, how barren my life would have been! Whenever I was sad, tired, happy, or excited, I could always find strength in the music that was in my ears, and I could enjoy those happy moments more abundantly.
These days, as a parent, I mostly listen to music for the baby rather than music for myself.
When I searched YouTube to find nursery rhymes for my baby, I was amazed to see that many of the nursery rhymes that my parents used to sing to me when I was young are still alive and well. Even though I heard them after decades, they sounded so familiar as if I had heard them yesterday, so it seems that music doesn’t get erased from our heads no matter how much time passes.
When you listen to nursery rhymes with your baby and savor the lyrics, it’s so innocent and cute. It’s also a little childish.
Lyrics that are so one-dimensionally funny that they say that goblin panties are dirty, smelly, and won’t budge even after being worn for two thousand years.
However, when I sing that song to my baby and move to the rhythm, I actually get a little excited. When my baby is happy and starts waving his hands and moving to the rhythm, I can’t help but sing the song even more exaggeratedly!
I remember being surprised to see my mother constantly singing to me like a jukebox, remembering the nursery rhymes she used to sing to me in a corner of her head.
Music has a certain power that, once it enters us, it never leaves us. I don’t know exactly what that power is, but I think it’s because of that that we can recall and remember various memories!
In the distant future, when you hear and sing the nursery rhymes you hear every day, you will naturally reminisce about your childhood, right?
It’s a night like that when I think about how I should make more happy moments by listening to exciting nursery rhymes with my baby until that day comes.
Today is the forty-second day of my 100-day parenting gratitude diary.
On the way back from visiting the baby’s grandparents’ house, in the car, I played nursery rhymes for the baby again today.
The baby, who couldn’t sleep until well past nap time because he was having so much fun playing with his grandparents, quickly fell asleep with the nursery rhyme as a lullaby.
My husband, who was driving, checked on the baby’s deep sleep, quickly changed the music to a playlist that we liked, and continued our romantic drive on the congested Olympic-daero.
It’s been a while since I’ve heard music that we enjoy listening to, rather than nursery rhymes, so I, sitting in the back, also felt good.
In fact, when a baby gets in a car, it is common for them to have trouble sleeping and whine even when they are tired. But today, as soon as I put them in the car seat, they fell asleep right away, so I feel so comfortable next to them! And it is not a nursery rhyme, but our favorite music!
It was midday so the road home was a little congested, but it was still nice.
On the road where various horns and car sounds were mixed together, the three of us experienced a comfortable ride home for the first time in a long while.
Music that perfectly changes the atmosphere of a space like this is essential to my life. I am grateful for this environment where I can listen to music, and, although it may seem a little strange, for having ears that can listen to music.
‘Today, thanks to the various music, our family of three had a fun day. Tomorrow, I will have another exciting day listening to fun songs with the baby!’