When i was about 12 years old my life was not going so well, i was being bullied and everything. I just wanted to die. Then one day i was just looking at a store looking at music and i spotted one album that would change my life. The band was called the used. Ever since i listened to them i started to get attached to emo music more and more i felt like i wanted to live on because their lyrics they reminded me of my life. Is it possible that music saved my life?
2007-01-21 04:12:46 · 15 answers · asked by mark z 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Yes. Music can be intensely personal, therapeutic, uplifting and cathartic. It is also possible that an intensely affirmative glance from a total stranger you will never see again could have the same effect. The connections and the answers are there. Sometimes we just have trouble seeing them.
2007-01-21 04:23:11 · answer #1 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it can. Look at it this way, you're making a rational argument that works in a rational situation, but if you're thinking about committing suicide you've obviously stopped using logic and reason a long time ago. At that point you're all emotions and all kinds of unstable, and in that state the smallest things can have the most profound effect on you, even things much less conspicuous than music. It might not even be a happy song, but maybe something that takes you out of your own little world where everything sucks long enough to see you were being silly, or then again maybe it is a happy song that sways you strongly in your irrational mindset, or then a third time maybe it's just a song that speaks about your situation perfectly and it helps to know other people have been through the same and made it out okay. So yes, music can save your life, and yes it will sound silly to everyone but you if it happens. I can't say music has "saved my life" by any means, but it has definitely had enough of an effect on me at certain times for me to respect the idea. Edit: Because of the strong opposition to that view I guess I should mention that I'm not saying every 13 year old that blbbers on about their favorite band saving their life has a legitimate case, that is NOT what I mean. Just that people who are genuinely willing to kill themselves, to consciously bring about their own death, are not thinking on the same wave length as most other people. And it isn't impossible that in a few select cases, one of these high strung individuals' decisions was effected by music. Some people's whole lives revolve around music and so it will deeply move them coupled with extreme emotional stress. I mean, the last thing Ian Curtis of Joy Division did before he killed himself was put and Iggy Pop album on, that was his last action on Earth. Maybe if he had put on "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley and not a post-punk album called The Idiot it would have been different. Maybe not, but the point is, people are weird and can have emotions very deeply linked to music, the idea is not completely out of the question.
2016-05-24 05:34:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happened to me.
I was living in a very noisy boarding house with mostly late-teen, early-20's men who liked to play rap at all hours and sprinkle their loud talk with more than a little profanity. Hey, they were young guys. It's like that. But I was a middle-aged woman who moved into that situation because health problems didn't let me sustain my income, and I couldn't keep my apartment. Well, I got deathly ill to the point I thought I was going to die, and the constant noise level around there wasn't letting me relax enough to recover. I fished through my CD collection for something I considered sane and a lot more mellow, then drowned out the noise with some soothing, relaxing Gordon Lightfoot. If not for that, I don't know that I would have gotten better.
2007-01-21 04:22:25 · answer #3 · answered by cruztacean1964 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's possible. A lot of people listen to music to lift them up when they are down or to encourage them. I think that music has saved so many lives and will keep saving lives.
2007-01-21 04:16:45 · answer #4 · answered by PAC ♥Kat R.I.P. Benoit :( 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's very possible that music did save your life, or at the least your sanity. Same thing happened to me, awesome music pulled me out of a really bad time in my life.
2007-01-21 04:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Silver Snake 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The same thing happened to me, but with a different band. I know plenty of people who probably wouldn't be here if it weren't for their music. Music is powerful and can do great things. :]
2007-01-21 04:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by Amber S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really dont think it can. If someone has a gun to your face, listening/playing a song wont save you. Listening to music wont save you from a car accident, nor will it save you from cancer.
I think it can turn your life around though, and it give it new meaning. And indirectly stop you from committing suicide.
2007-01-21 12:41:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. music does save lives.
2007-01-21 04:20:23 · answer #8 · answered by hairspray queen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
2007-01-21 04:16:27 · answer #9 · answered by tkj3395 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Definately music can save peoples' lives!
helped save mine... no joke
2007-01-21 04:26:30 · answer #10 · answered by somegirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋