Reveling in Your Emotions is One of the Biggest Blessings of Our Age

 You could list the blessings of living in our modern day and come up with a magnificent assortment: Travel the world and get there in mere hours, visit national parks in all their splendor and beauty, watch creative TV shows and movies, attend sporting events, find almost anything on the Internet . . .
   Wait, you are leaving one of the biggest of bigs out: Music. And it is not just music. It's that you can turn to music to amplify your emotions. Back in the day, you couldn't just dial up a song on YouTube when you were feeling emotional.
   After all your long efforts and failures, will there come a time when things finally go right? Well, here's a song to express your emotions:

Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
Now I believe there comes a time
When everything just falls in line
We live an' learn from our mistakes
The deepest cuts are healed by faith
. . . I'm all fired up! (fired up, fired up)

   Let that song reflect your feelings; Let it express them. Emotions scream louder when you can pull such a song out and play it over and over and over -- all day long, if you want. In the old day, you could have this thought about how some day everything is going to turn out right, but it was nothing like this. 
   Oh, and there are a million songs about lost love and heartache. Listening to them over and over actually can make the heartache feel enjoyable.
   There are fanciful songs like "Up, Up, and Away," songs that welcome you to a new day like "Oh, What a Beautiful World," and inspiring songs like "The Impossible Dream." Life is lived at its fullest when feelings and emotions are reveled in, when you are buried in them like in the waves of the sea. When you can shout an emotion, or whisper a gentle feeling, that is life at the height of its sublimity.
   Thank YouTube for this; thank the old record player. Back in the day, they couldn't just snap their fingers and some genie would sweep their emotions off to an awaiting paradise. Make no mistake, this is one of the biggest blessings of our age.