Growing Up and Apart with Linkin Park

Like any other kid growing up Linkin Park was a big deal to me. Probably one of the earliest bands I listened to. They were the introduction to a lot of things for me as a teenager. And as you go through the teen angst phase where life teaches you harsh lessons on who your friends are and how tough life can get; they were there.
Through Numb and In the End and What I’ve Done and Bleeding out and Given Up and Wake and Leave Out All The Rest, I healed. You healed us. You gave strength to millions of teens out there looking for hope.
I must admit over the last 6–7 years I had lost touch with your music. My tastes evolved so did yours and we just grew apart. Life got happier and there was Coldplay for that. Life got deeper and we had Floyd and Beatles and Queen and Pearl Jam to learn from.
But over the last 5 months or so, life started testing me again, yes I had just witnessed the biggest high of my life but as it is with life, it was time for a low I guess. And I found myself instinctively going back to Linkin Park, nothing else would work, it just had to be them, the lyrics had new meaning now, the profoundness I couldn’t comprehend in their music as a 17 year old was suddenly staring at me.
Lyrics I had overlooked till now like “What it meant to me, will eventually, be a memory” took a whole new meaning. And I understood. I understood that Linkin Park is a part of my life and that every time I hit a low I shall fall back on them, I shall discover new sides to them. And I shall heal.
Thank you Chester. You were never my favorite band, and you probably wont be either, but something tells me, you’ll be the one that stays. And In The End, That’s All That Matters.
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