24.01.10 - Music

Assalamu'alaykum wrth.

Music... Do we really need music in our life to spice up or to motivate us? Or to drown ourselves in sorrow and anger into music? Peoples said before: Music is my life. Music connects with me coz it shows how i feel. And sometimes people use music for the good use, to attract youths to mosque and the westerners use music to get people to donate them with heart-warming songs.

Here's how i started listening to music. At the age of 13 & 14 i started to hear radio 98.7fm everynight before i doze off to sleep. Listening to all diff genre of english songs. Then at the age of 15 onwards, i stop listening for a while and switch to nasyid songs. Then i realised nasyid has changed. It became more modernise and started to follow western stlye. Sometimes the lirik has syirik in it. That's nasyeed in asia. So i stopped listening all songs for a year. At 17, i started to listen al-quran, try to memorize a few surahs. So, i didn't know anything the western or nasyeed songs. I didn't care what's the new songs, new singers in the song charts.

At 17 years old, i had started working then. Then i meet him, that's Abang Saiful. So after a few months, i realised he listens to western songs too which i would i have never expected he would. So, i thought well its ok to listen to westerns song but i'm not engrossed into it. I don't go and find what's the update for new songs in internet or radio. I only stumble to these songs in facebook and some bloggers.

Now, eventhough i seldom listens to western songs. But i'm afraid it's getting to me. Meaning, i'm afraid that i would find comfort in music to ease my sorrow and to stop thinking about problems for a while.