What's Your Song?

With their powerful ability to open our hearts, songs can help us express our pain and joy, soothe our hurt, or proclaim our credo. No wonder everyone has a playlist they listen to when in need of comfort, strength, or cheer, says Mamlu Chatterjee.

- Mamlu Chatterjee

So many things coalesce to make a ‘good year’, which in my book is defined as a year that provides plenty of opportunities to rejoice, learn and rebuild where necessary, celebrate triumphs, recognise a series of moments that may, by themselves, be ordinary, but when pooled together, leave you with a satisfied sigh at the end of the year.

I had a pretty good 2016, but bringing it to its very end on 31st December, spending some hours with my husband and daughter, sharing our favourite ‘music memories’ was most certainly the high point of my year. We sang loudly and in unison, surprising ourselves when we remembered all the lyrics,drumbeats and even the shimmies in between! It emphatically brought home how music impacts our mood, and thereby, our lives altogether.

When someone recently asked me if I have a song/ poem that lifts me whenever I listen to it, I didn’t have to think too hard. I have my little collection of these and have always hummed them to myself if they weren’t playing loudly already. Every time I hear The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow from the musical, Annie, it just puts things in perspective for me. Yep, nothing is going to come to a standstill; life will carry on and the dark days will become history soon enough!