7 Days Without Music

   For the past week I have decided not to listen to any music that I can help listening to. Usually I listen to music all day everyday. But I've wanted to to find out if music really affects my moods and my emotions. From walking to class to just recreationally listening in my room, music is a big part of my life. 

     Day 1: My first day is going as bad as I thought it would. My normal morning ruutine is to get up turn my music on and hop in the shower. But today when I rose I had to stop myself from turning on my jams. Let's just say it was a very quite and boring shower. Next it was my bus ride to class. While I'm on the bus I have my earbuds in my ears vibing to the beat of my favorite songs but today was not the case. The wave of voices and conversations on the bus roared in my ears

Day 2: On my walk to work I'm used to blasting my music not giving a care about the world it's just me and my jams. On the day  in particularly my commute to work without music wasn't bad. He scenery I normally take for granted I actually paid attention and realized what I was missing. The sounds of nature and the sight of the changing seasons was beautiful. 

Day3: Today I think that it is really sinking in how much music is  essential to me. At work today I normally power through my tasks vigorously with my music to keep me motivated but today that I am not able to I was moving rather sluggish. I wasn't my happy go lucky self I was cranky and was short with everyone. This is when I knew that music really is apart of my everyday life. 

Day4: In class we had an independent assignment that took up the whole class period. But the only thing that secluded me from everybody else was that I was the only one with out earbuds in my ears. As I looked up at the class there heads were down and there pencils and pens were vastly moving relaying there thoughts to the paper. Me on the other hand I write better when I have music so my ideas where nowhere to be found. Eventually a idea revealed its self in my mind but it took way too long 

Day5: Things are starting to get better. I'm learning how to pass the time of the day without music all the time. While I do homework I used a stress ball that my English teacher gave me during class to help with the distractions while I worked. I'm having much more conversations with the people I see on a day to day basis. I think this explains the low human interaction rate that we are faced with today.

Day6: I realize that I have two more days of this and I'm ready to get back to my normal way of doing things but at the same time I'm not as eager to seclude myself from others again. Today I actually just read in silence and and accomplished a lot. Usually I would have soft music playing and before you know it I'm singing along distracting myself or changing the songs which would put me more and more behind in My readings 

Day7!!!: Today is the last day of my music withdrawal and I have learned a lot throughout this last week. I think I've grown to seeing things in a new light and will make changes to my day to day endeavors 

Reflection : Over this last week I've not listened to music and it has affected me greatly. My moods to the pace I get work done at. Now I know how greatly music is important to me. 🎶