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Music that lifts my soul
This is Why I Danced in the Rain Today
I felt free
Yesterday, for the first time in what feels like an age, I drove alone to the supermarket, a few miles down the dual carriageway, and put some music on to accompany me on the journey.
And that was when something weird happened.
It was music I hadn’t listened to for a while but is a Spotify “radio” that I have in my favourites, filled with lots of upbeat, experimental-cum-traditional French and European tunes. It’s the kind of music I absolutely adore; that churns up lots of memories of friends, France, dancing, and good times — easy times from another life before life became heavy and filled with a multitude of responsibilities.
Music is powerful. It evokes emotions with such ease. Each instrument and each rhythm has the power to pull on a different heartstring. Lyrics, harmonies, you name it, they will draw your tears or your smiles…or both.
Sometimes it’s the words, sometimes the sounds, and sometimes it’s both. This time, it was pure sound.
I felt my muscles relax for the first time in weeks, and then the tears started to roll down my cheeks as I realised what I had, unknowingly, been missing. I had forgotten what it can feel like to just bathe in the wonder of…
