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Before I begin this blog, I wanted to apologize for my lack of blogs last week. With the combination of stresses at my day job to being delayed 5 and a half hours coming back from seeing my sister and her family in Virginia, my mojo to create blogs took a nosedive. I appreciate your understanding on this matter.
Anyways, continuing in the holiday series of blogs, I wanted to share with you all something that most people would find bad for their mental health, but I find something that isn’t. I am talking about, of course, listening to holiday music.
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Now, don’t get me wrong, I can understand that listening to holiday music is meant to get you into the spirit of the season. However, for some people, listening to holiday music can often times bring up bad memories from your past or it just rubs on you the wrong way.
When it comes to some neurodivergent individuals like myself, we tend to find holiday music something that we can stim to and help us get back on track after a hard day.
The fact is that listening to holiday music is no different than listening to rock and roll, rap, opera, etc. Something else I find is that when we listen to legendary singers and musicians as kids, we tend to open our minds more to their other songs later in life. That’s why when you listen to Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” for example, you get to hear and appreciate his later works like “That’s What Life is All About” or “Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day.”
But when it comes to holiday music, something I find in my day job of 13 years is that not all holiday music is played. You mostly get the classic holiday songs like “White Christmas,” “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” “Home for the Holidays,” etc. and not the songs that really capture the truth of the season like “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “O Come O Come Emmanuel,” “Joy to the World,” and of course, “Silent Night.” I feel that if these songs are played more during the holidays, then people can appreciate the holiday season and thus, the music a little more.
Most importantly, some of us tend to find comfort in these kinds of songs more than others. But we tend to try and find comfort in them during our times of privacy more than being out in the open. It’s like you don’t eat vegan food in public, but you do out of sight of others. It’s that private side that can give you that sense of security in real life.
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It also helps that if you want to listen to holiday music, just focus on the ones that truly make you happy. It can be some of the most well-known, or the most not so well known. One example would be two songs from “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street” (1978). I sometimes find comfort in the songs, “True Blue Miracle” and “Keep Christmas with You (All Through the Year).”
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Overall, the important tip to take away from this blog is that holiday music isn’t for everyone. But if you are someone who loves holiday music, especially year round, but isn’t afraid to admit it, by all means don’t be afraid. If people criticize you for it, just ignore them. But it’s also important to be mindful because if you take a moment to walk in their shoes, you will get a different perspective.
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Catch you all later and Merry Christmas Eve to those who Celebrate Christmas!!
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