I recently read scientific research which has shown that even when the human brain is stricken and incapacitated with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, it retains and replays memories of songs we've listened to throughout our lives.
Unfortunately, this research tells me that the AC/DC song that I listened to while running/walking around a track for two hours in high school for some cause I've long since forgotten, will haunt me until the day I die. I wish I had known about this research at 17 as I would have run far from two hours of the same AC/DC song infiltrating my developing brain over and over again, but... hindsight is 20/20.
On the other, greener side of the AC/DC problem is the fact that the MP3 player that is apparently lodged in my head for perpetuity will continue to spontaneously play my favorite worship songs at unpredictable times for the rest of my life. And, if I know God the way I think He tells me to know Him, these wonderful songs will get played at times I need them most, even when I no long have control over retrieving the memories, playing them on i-Tunes, or inserting a CD into the stereo.
Presumably, if I succumb to one of these horrible diseases, I will also shed my inhibitions while retaining my gray matter-based MP3 player. And, though I won't have the opportunity to remember it, I hope I dance across the floors wherever I am, celebrating and worshiping a God who, even in the darkest of times, has found a way to remain within me and close to me.
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