Is music essential?

[Shawn]

I've been fighting recurrent major depression my entire life, it's just part of my make-up. I can say without a shred of exaggeration that music has "saved" me on numerous occasions.

[WorldB3]

I've been fighting recurrent major depression my entire life, it's just part of my make-up. I can say without a shred of exaggeration that music has "saved" me on numerous occasions.

Pretty much the same as it helped me to have hope and inspiration during hard times growing up.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I've been fighting recurrent major depression my entire life, it's just part of my make-up. I can say without a shred of exaggeration that music has "saved" me on numerous occasions.

Pretty much the same as it helped me to have hope and inspiration during hard times growing up.

I would say that's true of me, too.

BUT

if you want to save yourself, you'll find a way of doing so and it doesn't necessarily have to involve music - it's whatever you can find to help.

MG

[.:.impossible]

I'm just thinking "out loud" here... is anything created by the human race essential? Is that why the human race created it?

[jostber]

The answer for me is here: