Music

 

Music is tied to feelings. 

We can't help it. Songs provide a soundtrack to our lives.

A bar or two of a children's song can transport us back to playing in the yard or other clear memory of a specific moment in time many years ago.

What about the songs that were popular when we were in college? Or the love songs that tug just a little at our heart strings when we hear them?

In videos and movies, music has a job. Properly selected and applied, the music tells us how to feel. 

As I thought back on the lead up to a diagnosis and even the day of the appointment, I think there should have been some anticipatory music or maybe creepy music to alert me that something bad was about to happen. You know the kind of music that alerts movie viewers to danger lurking around corners? Some kind of music might have helped me to feel more prepared for the bad news. Would I have felt less surprised?

How would I score that day? That first appointment? What should the songs be? Do I reach back into the oldies or keep it contemporary and fresh?

I decided on a list of titles to score daily life or at least the part that is affected by rheumatoid arthritis. 

Feel free to add titles. 

Here is a running list:

Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind. This one includes a touch of the gratitude feel.

I Don't Know Why, Stevie Wonder. Love that even Stevie wonders about such things. Pun intended.

Twist and Shout, The title is somehow appropriate for a chronic pain diagnosis.

F*ck That Shit, could work depending on the day.

Hurt, by Johnny Cash.

"Life Ain't Always Beautiful," Gary Allan.