Laughing at Sad Songs

I used to be a Sad Song fan. I loved all kinds, especially this one by Bonnie Raitt:

I still love this song, but I don’t feel the need to sing it and feel it always. Also this one by Phil Collins:

This morning I was listening to podcasts from a few weeks ago on This American Life on NPR from Chicago Public Radio. THIS EPISODE was so striking and funny to me.

Funny to ME! Jayleigh! The girl who loved sad songs, even when she’s happy, because it made me feel like someone knew the depth of my emotions. And while I drove myself 40 minutes over to see my chiropractor, I laughed. I let out a belly-laugh that surprised even me.

My life is amazing, and I don’t have things in common anymore with those sad songs. And even this, my favorite sad song of all time:

is just another song to me.

There’s no more dwelling on opportunities lost, people who’ve come into my life, only to walk out again after I began to care for them deeply. No more obsessing over that one perfect afternoon, or that time in middle school when that guy said he really “liked” me, but he wouldn’t go out with me because I was head-and-shoulders taller than him.

It was so freeing to know that I’m not bound the way I once was. I know it’s been forever since I dwelled on sad songs the way I once did… it’s just that I found pleasure today, in the fact that I don’t need the sad songs anymore.

To take it one step further, God recreated me, renewed me, and put a new song in my heart!

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