Let’s All Sing!

Do you sing? I’m not asking whether you’re a singer, or whether you have a good voice – I simply want to know if you sing. You know, the kind of singing that you do when you’re inside the bathroom, or while you’re accomplishing your household chores, or those times when you simply hum a tune in your head while you’re doing something else.

People who sing are generally happier about life.

There are many individuals who attest to the fact that singing is a therapy. And why not, singing helps a person let go of his inhibitions. It makes a person accept things more easily (it takes courage and confidence to sing even though you know you don’t have a good voice, mind you). And it makes a person appreciate beauty even more.

Remember the “last song syndrome”? You hear a song in the morning and it’s got so retained in your head that you find yourself singing that song the whole day – until all your friends tell you to shut up! Or, remember the term “song stealer”? You hear someone singing a song, then you find yourself singing that song, too. Good thing there’s no law against singing a song that’s not originally ours, or many of us will go to jail. :p

We sing because we find a song beautiful, and maybe subconsciously we want to preserve that beauty, so we sing the song over and over and over and over again.

People who sing are generally happier about life.

There’s something in a song that is charming, something that’s divine, something that touches and reaches the soul. In fact, a song can make anything beautiful – even sadness, even pain, even suffering.

And to sing with all of one’s heart (even without the good voice) gets a person in touch with the deeper part of his soul and see everything there – the positive and the negative – in their rawest form. And acknowledge that even the ugliest things about us and about our life, need to happen for a reason – and that they are needed to make the beauty that is us.

So let’s all sing together – with or without the voice – and enjoy life!