Music as a Healing Process

There's no argument here: when you`re down, listening to sad songs and crying in bed all day sounds pretty good. But maybe you`re on a schedule. Maybe you`ve got an hour to compose yourself before having to go to school, work, or anywhere else.

Being quite the emotional one myself, I decided to make myself what I called the Healing Process Playlist. It starts off with a few depressing slow songs that make you weep uncontrollably within the first few seconds. The ones that follow are almost just as soft as the first, but the pace is picked up a little. Up next are a few mellow tunes that aren`t sad at all. Eventually, the HPP ends with a happy-go-lucky tune that just makes you want to feel great and go on with your day. Simple enough, right? Here`s my list.

David Gray - This Year's Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gNDUZZduKE
Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzeW5KoPUI
Bon Iver - Re: Stacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePatJIwB-sI
The Weepies - Can`t Go Back Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JscAwVu2QI
Radiohead - High And Dry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFfFVSerQo
John Mayer - Who says
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvu1AOnUIw
Goo Goo Dolls - Sympathy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oF0iY0z_Bs
Andy McKee - Drifting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
Dashboard Confessional - Where There's Gold********
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xukI9F24bjM
Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7bHe--mp1g
Everclear - Wonderful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfgAbFY4CA
Hedley - Never Too Late
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCyo4vXm30U

********You can most certainly end your list on a soft yet happy note with a song like Where There's Gold. Or, from there on, you can slowly work your way to a pick-me-up with songs similar to the ones that follow.

Enjoy!

We're gonna make it.

It’s 3 :03pm. We’ve got 5 hours to make it from Sudbury to Toronto. The roads are terrible, and by terrible, I don’t mean the kind of conditions that would make our red, white, and blue neighbours close their schools because of a lethal two centimeters of snow. Oh, no.

  We’re talking snowstorm. We’re talking whiteout. We’re talking wind and rain; freezing rain. We’re one mishap away from an accident, and to be honest, judging by the track record of the one behind the wheel, our lives are not in the greatest of hands.

We’re tired. We’re nervous. We’re scared shitless. So why are we putting ourselves through this? We are we driving on? We’re driving on for fear far greater than any danger-induced dread.

We’re driving on for fear of missing the concert. The Barenaked Ladies concert. 

This first post

In the grand scheme of things, this first post doesn't really matter. Neither will my second. This blog may very well be just as irrelevant, as may everyone else's, this website, and the internet as a whole.

It's easy to wonder, after reading that statement, why I even have a blog to begin with. The truth is, the things I write about might not matter to that many people, or to anyone at all a few hundred years from now when I'm gone and long since forgotten. They might be tiny and insignificant. They might be as unimportant as life itself, according to the growing number of existentialists out there.  But they're my thoughts, and they matter to me right now.

So, I write my thoughts down for pleasure, for an outlet, and for something to do. And maybe, just maybe, they won't be irrelevant to someone else.