Has anything ever caused you to feel small, quell in your seat, and just shiver? Sometimes, the effect will start in your spine and spread through your body, and other times it will start in the head moving to your toes. The power is overwhelming and can do more than make you cower. More often than not, I feel connected to something much bigger than myself.
I’m going to play the nerd-card here and say music does this for me a lot. Nearly every-time I feel tingly all over is when I’m listening to something with extraordinary meaning. Does this explain away the place Marching Band has in my heart? Not really, no, we don’t play music per say, not this kind. A lot of times, it’s more that just music anyway.
Have you ever really understood what someone has said or really, not said? I was watching Roswell (and no, not all my life is based in alien make-believe), and Maria watches her best friend, Liz, open an acceptance letter from Northwestern. She said congratulations to Liz, but you could just feel her soul drop. Did Liz really mean it when she said, “of course we’ll always have each other.” Recently, I’ve become worried about the incredible sense of dread I get from the thought over-boding thought of leaving people. And while part of me can acknowledge that people probably don’t care for me in the same way (thus meriting less worry), I still feel miserable thinking about that. I understood what Maria didn’t say as she watched the most important person in her life leave her, while she had to smile about it. I got shivers.