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 Everyone has his/her favorite genre of music.  Some people like and often listen to classical music.  Others prefer pop music, or rock, jazz, R&B and so on.  Although there are also many people not familiar with music itself so much like me, most of us enjoy listening to certain kinds of music.  Why do they listen to music?  From my experience, I think this is because listening to music is the good way of relaxing ourselves.
 
 Listening to our favorite music can recharge the battery of our mind.  In the daily life, we usually accumulate some mental and physical stress and if we continue to consider the problems like conflicts with others or trouble on business, irritation of slow progress of our skills and knowledge and so on, we would be depressed to be mentally and physically sick.  However in fact, favorite music entertain our mind and release us from these troublesome things by making us forget them temporally.  This is precious chance for our mind to have enough rest to recover our mind and to deal with them adequately.
 
  Some masterpieces move our mind which gives us good opportunity to show our feeling.  Express our real mind is one of our instinct.  Please imagine of comfort and satisfaction we feel when we show our real mind through writing or saying our opinion and expressing it through artistic method such as pecture and performance of musical instrument.  Even listening to masterpiece can become an impetus of statement of our feeling because it makes us emphasize with the musicians' feeling. Discover of great performance provoke our certain feeling like sadness or pleasure.  Therefore, we feel satisfaction or comfort to move our mind by listening to good musical performance. This satisfaction also leads to heal our mind and relax our mind by reducing mental stresses.
 
In this way, listening to music enables us to forget our serious problems accumulating in daily life.  Music plays important part in coping with stress and keep sound condition of our mind.  I think that is why people listen to music.