Music to heal

If music plays an important role in your life, most likely you turn to it when you're feeling down and in need of healing. I don't know what it is we find in those songs that can be so comforting, maybe it's a simple act of empathy: we listen to a piece of music that we think we understand, therefore we sense we have an understanding, if only partial, of the human being who made it, and that makes us feel less alone... could it be?

There is this song (I know I'm not being original at all, as far as I know, everybody likes it, but that doesn't make it any less healing), "Clair de Lune", by Debussy. We're on the summits of auditive beauty with this one. Maybe that's all it takes, being reminded of the beauty that exists, outside and inside ourselves, to make us feel a little better instantly. I recommend you make time to listen to this piece.

When you're already down down down at the bottom, you have already acknowledged that, and what you need is a self-kick in the butt and a boost of energy, an pinch of cynicism and slice of "tough guy" attitude on the rim of a glass of bourbon or something... this The Killers song is perfect: "Joyride".

The last song is about staying calm and collected in the face of the absurdity of it all, of our fears and preoccupation that seems so great inside of our heads, and the idea that we (I dare to thing I'm not the only one) sometimes get that whatever we just went through took all of our strength, if things had been just a tad more we would have been overwhelmed and crushed. Not true. We can endure so much more than we think... It's my song, by the way, hopefully you'll like it (Spanish lyrics, though...).