Music is probably one of the oldest activities among us, music was music before it was even music. Michael D. Lemonick says, “However, from an evolutionary point of view, music doesn’t seem to make sense. Unlike sex, say, or food, it did nothing to help our distant ancestors survive and reproduce. Yet music and its effects are powerful evidence in virtually every culture that they must satisfy some kind of universal need, often in ways we cannot begin to understand. ” Those words really speak to me because if you go back and look at all my posts, most of them are talking about and addressing the amazing and crazy things that music does and can do to humans. Music is very powerful and can do many things for humans and is known to release dopamine in our brains; the things that make us feel good and happy. In the article I’m reading, it says that music is a trigger and releases dopamine, the chemical of pleasure, in the same way that it would release it when eating or other things that make you happy.

Some would even say that music may be linked to addictive behavior due to the “feel good” dopamine that can be released just by listening to it. I could say that I am addicted to music because I listen to it every day for hours; while I’m getting ready in the morning, on my 40-minute commute to work, while I’m at work and I’m full-time, so that’s 5 days a week for 8 hours, on my 40-minute commute home from work, and right now while I’m doing homework and that’s almost every night for 4 hours, so there’s only one little window where I don’t listen to music. It sounds like 12-10 hours of no music a day. That’s a lot of music! I also change genres a lot, so I don’t get tired of my music because I want to have that feeling of “feeling good” while listening to music, it helps me to be more in what I’m doing. It helps me drive from work and back again a lot faster, and for work I sit at a desk staring at a computer for hours so that really helps me get through the day and while doing my homework it helps me to keep me focused and focused. in what I like to call a “zone” and I just take off and start doing it. Especially when it comes to writing because that is time consuming and can be very tedious and I easily lose concentration while writing articles and stuff. So music is something that really helps.