Back when I was in 7th grade. I still remember I was lying on my couch just feeling low for some reason. I wasn’t into listening to music much. And I felt that American music was dumb. I used to watch a show, POV on channel [V] which was hosted by Kim. I loved that show coz people from all parts of India used to send creative drawings; posters etc…and requested songs. It used to come everyday at 8pm I suppose. So that night I was changing channels and switched to POV. I saw a female running on an empty street, feeling all alone and asking for help from someone who could hold her and make her feel right…she didn’t know who he was but she was with him. That was the 1st song I ever liked and that was the day when I felt so connected to music. I just felt that girl was me for some reason, I don’t know. I just felt she was like me. I just felt so connected. That was Avril Lavigne’s, I am with you… That was the first ever feeling I had for music which made me feel connected and that’s how I started looking for her coz I knew that there was some connection. I knew nothing about her. I looked everywhere on the web and so many other places but I couldn’t find out who she was. All I knew was “I don’t know who you are but I, I’m with you”… Later in 8th grade I figured out it was Avril lavigne when I heard her new song ‘Don’t tell me’, which used to come everyday at exact 1:27pm on Mtv. I wrote her name down and began to check out her songs on web and that was the start of me and music. 
Today after years, I felt happy. I don’t know why I was happy. I just felt happy. I woke up at 6 and went to take shower. I washed my hair and I was feeling light. It always feels light when u remove thousands clips and extensions. I came out of the shower and stood near my wardrobe thinking of what to wear. I saw a yellow tee...now you must know I hate yellow…but I dragged it out and started to look at it. It was a tee on which all my school friends wrote things about me and drawings as a memory. I know the tee looks way too over loaded with so many words and pictures…but I love it…I never wore it before. I just felt like wearing it. Along with that tee I wore couple of old rings of mine and my old painted converse and my favorite levi’s jeans…I combed my hair which felt so light and all right…I applied some kajal…gulped milk…held a drawing book in my hand and left for college. I heard this song “Always” by Blink 182 in the train and I was behaving like a kid and I just felt so childish. I was singing that song whole day. I just don’t know why. I was singing it in my college canteen…everyone actually thought I was mad…I stood near the canteen mirror and started to make silly faces…it just felt right…I was just smiling and smiling and smiling…I didn’t let any of my friends speak or listen to anyone else…I just kept singing, dancing, jumping, irritating, pushing, pulling them…I just don’t know what made me feel so good. The whole day I irritated my classmates by singing lines that go like : lemme hold you… touch you… feel you… always, kiss you…taste you…all night…always.. The guy friends in my class are used to this weird behavior of mine but today I acted like a drunkard and they actually thought that I had lost myself completely. I doubt if I would have left somebody un-kissed if I would have heard that song for 5 more minutes. Hehehe… Later our jamming was canceled and that made me low. We already don’t have a bassist and our drummer and keyboardist went home. Anyways I kept my cool. I came back to my station and like always I was waiting for my mom to pick me up. She was late. I thought I’d walk. It had been a long time since I walked alone on the streets…So I started to walk without any aim of which way to go… A strange thing happened…I felt like I was in 7th grade again…my head felt light, the sun rays fell on my face…all I could see were my rings and drawing book in my hand…an almost half filled street…I didn’t see anyone I knew…all I could hear was the song which was being played on my phone. I was listening to ‘I’m with you’. In a 3 mins walk I lived that song…every word of it kept ringing in my head and I felt every beat of it matching to my footsteps…My hair falling on my face, blocking the street’s view. I don’t know I just felt I was looking for something and the search isn’t complete yet…For a moment I could hear nothing and see nothing which was moving around me. All I could hear was that song and see was my hair falling on my face. I was living each moment of that song. It was something which…just felt right. My car's horn broke my thought process and I got in the car thinking, a few seconds and some few words wrapped up in some rhythm can make you feel just perfect no matter where you are. It can purify your soul and you don’t even have to put in any efforts… All it takes to get wrapped into the blanket of music is… some honest words, warm feelings and some tunes…and rest...your soul speaks…
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