Quick Update

Today my roommate asked me to play a slow, sad song, and I picked the song "Only Time" by Enya.  To me, the song is a reminder of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 because the first time I watched a video of the attacks on youtube (as a young adult-I had seen the attacks before, but as a child who didn't really know what was going on), the video was to this song.  I remember balling after it, and discussing it with my friends who were similarly upset by it.  To my surprise, my roommate reacted with extreme excitement and pleasure.  He told me that his mother used to play this song when he was going to sleep as a very small child, and he was getting lots of memories from his very early childhood he thought he had forgotten.
I was struck as to how this song could bring up such terrible memories of death for one person, but at the same time bring back extremely happy memories of childhood for another person; just another example of the obscene power of music.