Senses

Our brains are amazing. I am sitting here surfing the internet listening to one of my mixed iTunes playlists and a Faith Hill song came on and brought back a waive of memories of when I first moved here. I bought this Faith Hill CD (on my quest to start liking country music) and listened to it constantly. It brought back a feeling of happiness, sadness, triumph, and anxiety. And how easily it came. Within the first ten seconds of the song, I was taken back 3 years. I was working for Fidelity Investments as a temp. commuting to work from Cedar Hills every day. I had just moved out here to Utah and was learning how to survive on my own, and on top of that I had to drive in the snow for the first time in my life (scary business for a Floridian). Wow...those were the days, and how life has changed since. It's strange cause it's not every song that I get taken aback by; maybe it's just those that didn't really impact me per-say at the time but were a part of my life when I needed the comfort of good music?!

It's not only songs that do this, it's smells too. It's hard to come across a smell of the past but from time to time it happens and holy flashback. It's kind of a neat experience cause I think you tend to forget things that don't seem very important in the long run, but at the time was a struggle...me moving to Utah and starting a life out here was, at the time, a very hard thing to do, but now that I'm established and have had a blessed life for the past 3 years, the beginning didn't seem all that hard...but it was and I'm glad I have senses to remember those moments and feelings! :)

...although some times they are indeed unwanted 'flashbacks'. Like a song that reminds you of good times with a guy that broke your heart or the smell of blood mixed with the cleaning agent you used to clean surgery tables at your first job at a vet's office. ha But overall they are welcomed thoughts which I enjoy dearly!

As I'm sitting here thinking about this, I'm feeling like this isn't really the case for sight?! I think you see so much everyday that it's hard to remember seeing something and then seeing that exact same thing to bring back those same emotions you had originally...I think it happens rarelier (not a word, but it's my blog and I can do what I want) and I hope that made sense (made sense...funny! ha). Perhaps the visual sensed flashbacks are more prominent in dreams and not during hours of being awake. Yeah.

Anywho...Happy Sensing-