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Life to Music

What's the Soundtrack of Your Journey?

By Mark Stackpole

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? My junior prom theme song, thank you very much. Ah, I love the 80s indeed.)

While trips down Memory Lane can be powerful (let's not even get into the breakup songs), I have found that I now imagine different music playing in my head during moments in my real life. Not memories so much as that personal soundtrack I alluded to earlier – if my life was a movie, what song would be playing during the most pivotal scenes?

Sometimes, it is the tough-guy posturing of rap, though it's not very convincing coming from a 34-year-old white guy. But for a second, I can feel that energy surging through me, and it feels good. Other times, a Top-40 tune puts a little spring in my step and makes me feel like everything is going to be OK. Occasionally, when I'm feeling low, I will even wallow in some Country-Western sadness. My soundtrack is pretty eclectic, but so is life, and since I am the only customer, I do not have to worry about making sure that every song is a hit. (When I enter a classroom full of new students, I imagine Darth Vader's Theme playing as I swing open the door nd stride into the lecture hall. Dum-dum-dum-DUM-de-DUM-DUM-de-DUM. Just the right song to give me the confidence I don't always feel.)

I am sporting a new theme song these days, one that makes me feel like I am running up the steps to Philadelphia's Art Museum, Rocky Balboa by my side, ready to take on life and all of its challenges. No, I have never hit a frozen slab of beef to toughen the knuckles, never drunk raw eggs and certainly would never get into the ring with Apollo Creed (and let's face it – I would take the elevator before ever running up that many stairs). So, what could the Italian Stallion and I possibly have in common? Why is Bill Conti's glorious theme song from the Rocky movies (Gonna Fly Now

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