Music With Hunter

Since a kid, music has always been something important to me. A lot of different people and experiences have shaped my music taste, or exposure. What comes to mind immediately is my friends, a (very specific) music class in 2nd grade, and lastly my family. Specifically, my dad. At a very young age I was exposed to lots of different music from my dad. I remember taking his MP3 player and putting headphones in and listening for hours. Through that (and our various car rides) I discovered a lot of different sounds. Some of it being things he was currently listening to but a lot of it being things that he grew up on. When I talked to my dad it was actually a really interesting conversation. I thought back to these conversations that we have had about music in the past and hearing these same stories as a 20-year-old as opposed to a young kid makes for a very different but very cool understanding. That understanding really came when I talked to my dad about who he was listening to at my age....

 Music is a big part of my life. I've talked about it before but to reiterate it- I am always listening to something.  I haven't been to any weddings (except one when I was 5), and (thankfully) I haven't attended a funeral yet, so I don't have any musical experiences along that avenue. I do however have a few times in my life where I was able to use music to overcome or process a situation or feeling. I would consider these feelings/situations/emotions that come up time and time again to be "traditions" that the same songs or music seem to fit. I find that music, at least the way I use it, has a purpose most of the time. The first situation I can really relate a certain song or type of music to would definitely be my experience around January/February of this year. I remember being super stressed out and feeling unable to sleep. I would go to bed and just lay there. I was trying to figure out things athletically, academically and personally and was just so ove...