The Memory of Music

There is a time in your life when music opens the world to you.  It moves you in a way that speaks directly to the soul, whispering of your longing and love and even loss with a passion and piercing clarity that, no matter how hard you try, will fade with the years, traded in for the haunting nostalgia that brings a wistful smile to the faces of adults who, when the right song flows through the air, remember those things as though looking at a photograph faded with age.