We all vibrate at a different frequency. We live our own lives with our own motivations, passions, beliefs, weird habits and morals. And when we can find vibrations that resonate similar to ours, the bonds we make are something beautiful and unbreakable. Some people don’t believe in the phrase ‘good vibrations,’ but if you’ve ever made a new friend or reconciled differences with an old one over music, you know that these energies are real.
I’ve always been a shy person. I moved around a lot as a kid and had grown up a lot faster than other kids my age because of difficulties at home, so lasting, genuine connections were hard to make. This began to change when I went away to college and lived by my own. I was able to do the things I wanted without question and that involved a lot of music and a lot of fun. Because friends had been so scarce early on, when I began to know who I was finding the few people who fit into the puzzle became easy. You either fit in the spot or you don’t.
Now where music ties into this is the intimate part. A favorite song says something about you. The grooves, the lyrics, the bassline, whatever it may be that makes this arrangement of notes speak to you – it speaks to someone else too. Music is a vibration in more than just a literal sense. When music moves through you, it spreads to someone else just like a mechanical wave. And from there to someone else. And this slinky-like feeling keeps moving with the ability to bring a room of strangers together in dancing bliss.
This energy can be healing and can instill euphoria into even the darkest of souls. Notes tie strangers together with an amicable ribbon of a single similarity. The ability to be moved. A friend and I had recently been on rough terms and were not speaking very often. Saying friend is a little bit less than what I’m actually talking about. This was my very best friend of many years, and we had drifted apart because of personal differences for quite a bit. But the other night, having someone play music to us in a room full of people there for the same thing, that had the ability to lift us out of the rift that we’d been stuck in. In the end we all have a lot more in common than we think.
No matter how well you know a person, you can always learn something new about them. And in the same respect there are always things to be learned about yourself. What makes music’s vibrations beautiful are the stories they can tell and the energies they create. The feelings and themes of these stories spread like wild fire on a dance floor. So the next time you go to down play ‘good vibes,’ think about how many vibrations affect your life every day, literal and metaphorical, and think twice.
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” – Nikola Tesla
More Than Just the Music 