The downside of Music

I really did not think this would be my first post, but it's 3am in the morning and I just finished one assignment and reading on for the next one. The stress level is high and the tired feeling is slowly winning the battle (yes, I will probably sleep in a while).

Anyway, as a habit I always listen to music in the background whenever I do work. A lot of people have asked me how it does not bother me to have music playing while trying to focus on academia, but really the answer is very simple. I don't pay attention to the lyrics, I just listen to the music.
But yes, there is one big drawback about this. When the stress level is high (like right now), my brain tends to divert its focus onto the lyrics and that, right there, is where the problem lies. When the focus goes into the lyrics, you start to naturally pay more attention to the feelings that the songs resuscitate in your heart. That brings up something that I find even scarier than feelings: Memories.

The power of a song is that its lyrics or its music is always able to struck a chord in your heart that triggers up your brain to conjure memories that you would prefer to keep locked up, so as to keep them in check. But what would you do if all the memories that start surfacing up are the sad kind, the kind that you never want to forget but that you are also afraid to remember? There, that is the downside of music when studying!